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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

Sri Aurobindo

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
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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Light Path Purity Soul Sun Walk
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
Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Advantage Difference Life Man
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
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Fate Greatness Man Soul
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
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
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Afford Institution Machine Ourselves Raise Simplicity Slave
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
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Age Creativity Herself Human People
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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Effort Game God Perfection Resistance Sin Virtue
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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Greatness Impossible Journey Possible
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
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

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