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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 Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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Divine Greatness Idea Philosophy Religion Truth
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Greatness Race Spiritual
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
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Chance Mindset Purity Silence
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
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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Light Path Purity Soul Sun Walk
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Fate Greatness Man Soul
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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Better Character Endurance Example Health Perfection Teaching Value
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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Effort Game God Perfection Resistance Sin Virtue
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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Atheist God Himself Play Shadow
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret

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