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The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.

Sri Aurobindo

You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Complete Responsibility Yourself
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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Carry Mindset Movement Observation Quiet Separate True
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
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Human Politics Recover Source Strength World
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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Ego God Greatness Stand Vision Way
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
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Essence Experience Mindset Remember Right Soul Touch
The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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Force Greatness Stand Strong
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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Commitment Fierce Offense Right
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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Mindset Progress Seek
An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
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Active Force Mindset Oneself Stop Try
The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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Action Awareness Preparation Yoga
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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Divine Greatness Idea Philosophy Religion Truth
If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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Forever Limitation Purpose Religion Time Universe
Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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Better Character Endurance Example Health Perfection Teaching Value
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
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Exceptional Privilege Remember Unique World
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Manifestation Material World
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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Divine God Human Man
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Beginning Consciousness Life State Yoga

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