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Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.

Sri Aurobindo

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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Acceptance Appearance Knowledge Man Reason
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
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
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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Active Capacity Mindset Silence Time
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
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Power Solidarity World
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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Consciousness Discipline Greatness Limitation Name Ordinary
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
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
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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Beyond God Life Spirit
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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Greatness Impossible Journey Possible
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive

Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.

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