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An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.

Sri Aurobindo

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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Appearance Experience Opinion Prejudice Soul
Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Advantage Difference Life Man
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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Divine Expression Nature Power Trust
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Beyond Knowledge Known
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
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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Culture Economics Future Humanity Issue Knowledge Progress Spiritual
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
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 supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Beginning Master One Liner
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
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
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

An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.

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