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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

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
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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Care Failure Prosper Success Time
All existence is a manifestation of God.
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Existence God Manifestation
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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God Love Myself Suffering
The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
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Identity Play True Universe
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
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Freedom Nature Soul Stand
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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Better Character Endurance Example Health Perfection Teaching Value
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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Consciousness Mindset Play Truth
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
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
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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Aspiration Calm Quiet State Wait
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
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
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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Effort Game God Perfection Resistance Sin Virtue
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
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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Acceptance Appearance Knowledge Man Reason
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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Change Death Forever Gate
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Person Sea Time
An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
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Active Force Mindset Oneself Stop Try
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
You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Complete Responsibility Yourself
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
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Choice Deep Wisdom

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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