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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.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Growth, Body, Needs

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• The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.

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  Light, Essence, Joy

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• When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly.

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  Heart, Laughing, Looks

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• Your mind has some clearness and capacity for right thinking; it opens towards the heights, but for its own sake, - to receive light from above for its own activity.

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  Thinking, Light, Mind

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• A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.

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  Vision, Intellectual, Way

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1989). “Bulletin”

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• Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.

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  Nurse, Enemy, Guests

  Sri Aurobindo (1994). “Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series”, p.134, Lotus Press

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• 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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  Sri Lanka, Creative, Age

  "Rewriting Indian History". Book by François Gautier, p. 158, 2003.

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• Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

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  Secret, Delight, Pure

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1988). “Bulletin Du Centre International D'éducation Sri Aurobindo”

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• The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength strength physical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual which is the one inexhaustible and imperishable source of all the others. If we have strength everything else will be added to us easily and naturally.

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  Spiritual, Looks, Moral

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1962). “Bulletin”

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

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  Dream, Men, Work Out

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• Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the Godward endeavour of the human spirit. An immense many-sided many-staged provision for a spiritual self-building and self-finding, it had some right to speak of itself by the only name it knew, the eternal religion, Sanatana Dharma.

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  Spiritual, Self, Names

  "Indian Spirituality and Life - 1" by Sri Aurobindo in "Arya", intyoga.online.fr. August 1919.

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• Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.

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  Pain, Keys, Play

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

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  Inspirational, God, Religious

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.

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  Long, Watches, Righteous

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• 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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  Running, Body, West

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• 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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  Would Be, Slave, Machinery

  "New Lamps for Old". Nine articles by Sri Aurobindo in the "Indu Prakash" (a Bombay daily newspaper), August 7, 1893.

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• 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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  Art, Doors, Use

  Sri Aurobindo (1999). “The Human Cycle, Psychology of Social Development”, p.175, Lotus Press

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• The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.

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  Past, Come Up, Surface

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• 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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  Expression, Intuition, Way

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• The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems of thinking obsolete or, when they are preserved, to extend, to modify and subtly or visibly to alter their value.

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  Moving, Past, Thinking

  Sri Aurobindo (2000). “Essays on the Gita”, p.562, SriAurobindoAshram Publication Dept

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• 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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  Mean, Men, Self

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1988). “Bulletin Du Centre International D'éducation Sri Aurobindo”

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• That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

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  Sri Lanka, Hinduism, Embrace

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “Karmayogin”, p.16, editionNEXT.com

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• While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

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  Silence, Mind, Capacity

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• The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.

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  Reign, Calm, Quiet

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• Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. What then was the commencement of the whole matter? Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being and plunged into numberless trillions of forms so that it might find itself innumerably.

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  Secret, Delight, Might

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo (1989). “The Supramental Manifestation, and Other Writings”, Lotus Press (WI)

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