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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.

Sri Aurobindo

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
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
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Calm Live Peace Shake
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
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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Courage Development Doubt Experience See
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
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
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Creature Freedom Love Nature World
All existence is a manifestation of God.
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Existence God Manifestation
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
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Greatness Race Spiritual
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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Change Hope Nature True
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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God Humor Smile Universe
The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
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Consciousness Greatness Knowledge Power Thinking
The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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Fall God Path Spiritual
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
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
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
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
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation
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
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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Atheist God Himself Play Shadow

Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.

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