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

Sri Aurobindo

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Attachment Away Desire Thinking
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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Action Change Course Direction Lonely Oneself
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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Care Failure Prosper Success Time
The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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Aesthetic Art Divine Door Finding Spirit
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
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
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
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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God Love Myself Suffering
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
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
Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Divine Power Stand Work Yourself
You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Complete Responsibility Yourself
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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Cry Emotion Enemy Force Hypocrisy Sentiment Weakness
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Power Solidarity World
Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Advantage Difference Life Man
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
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.
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Age Creativity Herself Human People
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
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
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
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Chance Mindset Purity Silence

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

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