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

Sri Aurobindo

Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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Fly Freedom Honey Sweet Touch Wings
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
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
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Forever Hands Life Thinking Time
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
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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Courage Development Doubt Experience See
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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Audience Joy Love Music Performance
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
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
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
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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Body Determination Live Nature

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

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