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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

Sri Aurobindo

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.
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Active Force Mindset Oneself Stop Try
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
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 supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
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.
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Act Consciousness Idea Material Play Preparation Thinking
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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Mindset Progress Seek
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
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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Art Himself Nature Transcendence
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
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Attachment Away Desire Thinking
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Greatness Race Spiritual

Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

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