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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.

Sri Aurobindo

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
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
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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Light Path Purity Soul Sun Walk
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Carry Discover Greatness Light Necessary Obstacle Oneself Realize
The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
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Cleaning Experience Past People Rejection Willing
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
SRI AUROBINDO

Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Fate Greatness Man Soul
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
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Human Politics Recover Source Strength World
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
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Afford Institution Machine Ourselves Raise Simplicity Slave
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Choice Deep Wisdom
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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Energy Force Nature Ocean Survive Water Young
Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
SRI AUROBINDO

Divine Expression Nature Power Trust
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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Cry Emotion Enemy Force Hypocrisy Sentiment Weakness

A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.

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