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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

Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
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
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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Better Character Endurance Example Health Perfection Teaching Value
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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Effort Game God Perfection Resistance Sin Virtue
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Chance Mindset Purity Silence
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
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 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
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Attachment Away Desire Thinking
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
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
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
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 supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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God Love Myself Suffering
All existence is a manifestation of God.
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Existence God Manifestation
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
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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Awakening Conscious Existence Poverty Society
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
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

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