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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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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

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An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.

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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.

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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

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Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.

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

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The navel region is the centre of the vital. It is from here that the movements of the vital rise upward. Above the navel and behind the chest is the centre of the play of emotions and below this takes place the play of the physical. Mulādhāra is the base of the physical. In between the Mulādhāra and the navel, there is another centre of the vital.

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With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all.

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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.

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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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Physical education for the body to be effective must be rigorous and detailed, far sighted and methodological. This will be translated into habits. These habits should be controlled and disciplined, while remaining flexible enough to adapt themselves to circumstances and to the needs of growth and development of the being.

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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.

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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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In the normal play of our mind there are all sorts of perversions; hence the need to stop all these things and inculcate right thinking, right willing - in other words, Truth must be established.

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Man in the world's life works out the dreams of God.

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A hidden Bliss is at the root of things. A mute Delight regards Time's countless works: To house God's joy in things Space gave wide room, To house God's joy in self our souls were born.

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There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err.

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New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts.

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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, - truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

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