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

Sri Aurobindo

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
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
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
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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Change Death Forever Gate
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Attachment Away Desire Thinking
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
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 have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Complete Responsibility Yourself
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
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known
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
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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Development Divine Help Intellectual
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Greatness Race Spiritual

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