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

Sri Aurobindo

The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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Existence Human Ourselves Power Principle
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
Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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Consciousness Discipline Greatness Limitation Name Ordinary
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
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
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Greatness Race Spiritual
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
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
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
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
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
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom

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