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

Sri Aurobindo

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
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Achievement Faith Manifestation Realize Soul Worth
A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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Point Satisfaction Success Thinking Truth
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
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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Art Himself Nature Transcendence
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
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
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
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
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
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 cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Cleaning Divine Empty
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Complete Responsibility Yourself
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
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
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
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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Light Path Purity Soul Sun Walk
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
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
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

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