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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.

Sri Aurobindo

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
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 which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
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
The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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Divine Greatness Idea Philosophy Religion Truth
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 cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Cleaning Divine Empty
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
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 anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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Beginning Devil Divine Kingdom Man State True
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
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
Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Divine Power Stand Work Yourself
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
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

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