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Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

Sri Aurobindo

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
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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God Love Myself Suffering
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
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
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
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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Action Command Expression Intution Talk Way
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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Change Death Forever Gate
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Perfection World Yourself
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
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
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
Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Dreams God Life Man World
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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God Love Object Religious
Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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Better Character Endurance Example Health Perfection Teaching Value
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

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