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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.

Sri Aurobindo

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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Acceptance Appearance Knowledge Man Reason
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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Fall God Path Spiritual
Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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Consciousness Discipline Greatness Limitation Name Ordinary
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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Atheist God Himself Play Shadow
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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Appearance Experience Opinion Prejudice Soul
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Chance Mindset Purity Silence
Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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Act Consciousness Idea Material Play Preparation Thinking
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known
Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
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Achievement Faith Manifestation Realize Soul Worth
Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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Knowledge Listening Power Surface True
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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Delight Force Hard Time Inspirational Key Master Open Pain Strength Suffering
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People

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