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Sri Aurobindo

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
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
This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Power Solidarity World
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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Age Beginning External Ignorance Life Power Reason
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Manifestation Material World
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
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
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
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Attachment Away Desire Thinking
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
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
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

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