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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.

Sri Aurobindo

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
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
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
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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Active Capacity Mindset Silence Time
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
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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Art Himself Nature Transcendence
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
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
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Beginning Consciousness Life State Yoga
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People

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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