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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

Sri Aurobindo

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching 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
The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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Level Mindset Physical Spiritual
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
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
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
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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Existence Human Ourselves Power Principle
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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Act Consciousness Idea Material Play Preparation Thinking
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Beginning Master One Liner
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 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
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Attachment Away Desire Thinking
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Choice Deep Wisdom

Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

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