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Sri Aurobindo

A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
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
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
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 cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Cleaning Divine Empty
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
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
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
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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Ego God Greatness Stand Vision Way
Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Advantage Difference Life Man
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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Commitment Fierce Offense Right
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Body Human Love Soul State

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