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Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.

Sri Aurobindo

Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
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Forever Hands Life Thinking Time
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Fate Greatness Man Soul
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
The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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Divine God Human Man
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
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
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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Audience Joy Love Music Performance
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
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
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
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
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
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
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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Body Determination Live Nature
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice

Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.

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Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.

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