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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.

Sri Aurobindo

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.
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Creature Freedom Love Nature World
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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Atheist God Himself Play Shadow
One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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Action Change Course Direction Lonely Oneself
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Better Chance Mindset Silence Truth
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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Knowledge Listening Power Surface True
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
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
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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Carry Mindset Movement Observation Quiet Separate True

What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.

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