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The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.

Sri Aurobindo

The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
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
Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
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Exceptional Privilege Remember Unique World
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
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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Fall God Path Spiritual
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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God Love Myself Suffering
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Better Chance Mindset Silence Truth
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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Active Force Mindset Oneself Stop Try
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Attachment Away Desire Thinking
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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Aspiration Calm Quiet State Wait
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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Carry Mindset Movement Observation Quiet Separate True

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