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Ideas, statements found in The Life Divine

  • Contradictions are complementaries.
  • Spirit will one day move matter.
  • Man, having two ideas, can act on one, ignoring the other.
  • Spirit evolves.
  • True happiness is when all the parts are growing.
  • There is absolute justice behind partial justice or injustice.
  • There is no waste in Nature as She does several things at once.
  • It is matter that makes the fleeting Ananda permanent.
  • Matter is Sachchidananda.
  • Time and Space are inner and outer extensions of consciousness.
  • Man is important to the All. The All is not important for man.
  • The energy that goes to create strength and weakness is the same.
  • Quantity is an illusion, quality is an illusion.
  • The Force is anterior to the instrument.
  • Nature is conscious.
  • God has become the world.
  • Man is self-forgetful God.
  • Science is occultism.
  • Reason, giving up the senses, becomes intuition.
  • Ego is reason.
  • Karma does not bind the awakened man.
  • Thought can know the Absolute.
  • Ignorance is the greatest product of creation.
  • The Absolute is the relative.
  • The ego is a power of the infinite.
  • We do not know the process of creation.
  • Lila is for Delight.
  • It is the lower vital that seeks success and happiness.
  • Man's ethics are unethical.
  • We are not obliged to respond with pain.
  • Memory makes us insincere.
  • Faith is created by perseverance.
  • The scientist does not know his field as thoroughly as the sannyasi knows the Spirit.
  • We know God in the descent, not God in the ascent.



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