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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.

Sri Aurobindo

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
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
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
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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Audience Joy Love Music Performance
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
The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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Action Command Expression Intution Talk Way
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
India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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Age Beginning External Ignorance Life Power Reason
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
Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
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Achievement Faith Manifestation Realize Soul Worth
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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Consciousness Mindset Play Truth
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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Fly Freedom Honey Sweet Touch Wings

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