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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.

Sri Aurobindo

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
Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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Body Determination Live Nature
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
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
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
All existence is a manifestation of God.
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Existence God Manifestation
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
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Choice Deep Wisdom
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 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
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

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