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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.

Sri Aurobindo

The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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Culture Economics Future Humanity Issue Knowledge Progress Spiritual
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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Existence Human Ourselves Power Principle
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation
Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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Care Failure Prosper Success Time
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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Development Divine Help Intellectual
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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Body Determination Live Nature
The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Cleaning Divine Empty
India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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Age Beginning External Ignorance Life Power Reason
Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
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Forever Hands Life Thinking Time
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand

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