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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.

Sri Aurobindo

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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Delight Force Hard Time Inspirational Key Master Open Pain Strength Suffering
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
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
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Fate Greatness Man Soul
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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Courage Development Doubt Experience See
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
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
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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Light Path Purity Soul Sun Walk
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
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation
The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
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Cleaning Experience Past People Rejection Willing
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 consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
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Consciousness Greatness Knowledge Power Thinking
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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Force Greatness Stand Strong
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
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
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Power Solidarity World
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
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
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

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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