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That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.

Sri Aurobindo

There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small 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
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
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Greatness Race Spiritual
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
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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Age Beginning External Ignorance Life Power Reason
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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Energy Force Nature Ocean Survive Water Young
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People

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