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

Sri Aurobindo

Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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Ego God Greatness Stand Vision Way
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
Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
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Meditation Mindset Silence Thinking
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 a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
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
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
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
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
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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Existence Human Ourselves Power Principle
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
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
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Age Creativity Herself Human People
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
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
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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Culture Economics Future Humanity Issue Knowledge Progress Spiritual
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
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
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
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Eyes God Small Yourself
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
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
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
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

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

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