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To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

Sri Aurobindo

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
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
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
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
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
A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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Point Satisfaction Success Thinking Truth
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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Divine God Human Man
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 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
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
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

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