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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.

Sri Aurobindo

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
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Divine Honey Law Live
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
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Condition Peace Stability
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
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
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 supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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End Freedom Spirit
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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Awakening Conscious Existence Poverty Society
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Human Knowledge Truth
Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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Act Consciousness Idea Material Play Preparation Thinking
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Embrace Forever Religion
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom

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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