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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

Sri Aurobindo

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
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
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State
The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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Force Greatness Stand Strong
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
Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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Care Failure Prosper Success Time
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Manifestation Material World
Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Divine Power Stand Work Yourself
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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Courage Development Doubt Experience See
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
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
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
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

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