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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.

Sri Aurobindo

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
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
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
Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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Consciousness Mindset Play Truth
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
All existence is a manifestation of God.
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Existence God Manifestation
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Beginning Master One Liner
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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Fall God Path Spiritual
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
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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Acceptance Appearance Knowledge Man Reason
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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Active Capacity Mindset Silence Time
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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Appearance Experience Opinion Prejudice Soul
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
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success

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