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

Sri Aurobindo

The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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Action Command Expression Intution Talk Way
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
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Choice Deep Wisdom
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
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
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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Cry Emotion Enemy Force Hypocrisy Sentiment Weakness
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
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
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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God Love Myself Suffering
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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Beginning Devil Divine Kingdom Man State True

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