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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

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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Beyond God Life Spirit
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
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
India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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Age Beginning External Ignorance Life Power Reason
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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Cry Emotion Enemy Force Hypocrisy Sentiment Weakness
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
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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Action Awareness Preparation Yoga
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
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
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
All existence is a manifestation of God.
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Existence God Manifestation
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
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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Divine God Human Man

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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