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The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.

Sri Aurobindo

One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
SRI AUROBINDO

Action Change Course Direction Lonely Oneself
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
SRI AUROBINDO

Creature Freedom Love Nature World
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
SRI AUROBINDO

Audience Joy Love Music Performance
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
SRI AUROBINDO

Effort Game God Perfection Resistance Sin Virtue
The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
SRI AUROBINDO

Divine Greatness Idea Philosophy Religion Truth
Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
SRI AUROBINDO

Meditation Mindset Silence Thinking
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
SRI AUROBINDO

Condition Peace Stability
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
SRI AUROBINDO

Human Politics Recover Source Strength World
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Active Force Mindset Oneself Stop Try
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
SRI AUROBINDO

Heart Knowledge Sleep
Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
SRI AUROBINDO

Act Consciousness Idea Material Play Preparation Thinking
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
SRI AUROBINDO

Person Sea Time
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
SRI AUROBINDO

Age Creativity Herself Human People
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
SRI AUROBINDO

Beyond Knowledge Known

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