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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

Sri Aurobindo

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Face Ourselves Practice
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Order Photograph Stop Yourself
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
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
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Delight God Learning Secret
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Attachment Away Desire Thinking
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Better Chance Mindset Silence Truth
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Choice Death Imitation Success
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
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
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
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
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Choice Deep Wisdom
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
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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Carry Mindset Movement Observation Quiet Separate True

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