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

Sri Aurobindo

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
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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God Himself Son
The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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Beginning Devil Divine Kingdom Man State True
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Principle Teaching True
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Choice Deep Wisdom
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
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
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
Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Beginning Consciousness Life State Yoga
Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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Art Himself Nature Transcendence
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
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Difficult Willing
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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Aesthetic Art Divine Door Finding Spirit
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent

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