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The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.

Sri Aurobindo

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
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
A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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Point Satisfaction Success Thinking Truth
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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Consciousness Discipline Greatness Limitation Name Ordinary
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 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
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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Mindset Progress Seek
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
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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Atheist Children Forever Game God Perspective
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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Divine God Human Man
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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Change Hope Nature 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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