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

Sri Aurobindo

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
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Consciousness Greatness Knowledge Power Thinking
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
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
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Creature Freedom Love Nature World
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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Change Death Forever Gate
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
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
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
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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God Love Myself Suffering
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
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
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Greatness Race Spiritual
The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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Aesthetic Art Divine Door Finding Spirit

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

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