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When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

Sri Aurobindo

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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Forever Limitation Purpose Religion Time Universe
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Beginning Master One Liner
If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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Energy Force Nature Ocean Survive Water Young
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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Carry Discover Greatness Light Necessary Obstacle Oneself Realize
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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Development Divine Help Intellectual
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
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Consciousness Greatness Knowledge Power Thinking
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
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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God Love Myself Suffering
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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Awakening Conscious Existence Poverty Society
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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Culture Economics Future Humanity Issue Knowledge Progress Spiritual
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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Courage Development Doubt Experience See
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
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Age Creativity Herself Human People
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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Knowledge Thinking True Yourself
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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Beyond God Life Spirit
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; 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
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
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

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