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The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

Sri Aurobindo

The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Fate Greatness Man Soul
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Beginning Master One Liner
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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Change Hope Nature True
Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Advantage Difference Life Man
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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God Love Myself Suffering
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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Change Death Forever Gate
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Better Chance Mindset Silence Truth
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
SRI AUROBINDO

Culture Economics Future Humanity Issue Knowledge Progress Spiritual
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 inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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Aspiration Calm Quiet State Wait

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

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