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The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.

Sri Aurobindo

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
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
You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
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Carry Discover Greatness Light Necessary Obstacle Oneself Realize
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
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
What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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Atheist Children Forever Game God Perspective
Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Beginning Consciousness Life State Yoga
The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
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Identity Play True Universe
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
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
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Greatness Race Spiritual
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.
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Human Politics Recover Source Strength World
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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Forever Limitation Purpose Religion Time Universe
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
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
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
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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Commitment Fierce Offense Right
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
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
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
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

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