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You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.

Sri Aurobindo

The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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Aesthetic Art Divine Door Finding Spirit
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
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
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
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
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Fate Greatness Man Soul
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
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
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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Body Determination Live Nature
The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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Action Awareness Preparation Yoga
Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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Care Failure Prosper Success Time
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Beginning Consciousness Life State Yoga

You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.

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You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.

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