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Sri Aurobindo Philosopher, Poet, Politician
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"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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"All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us towards the eternal truths shown beneath a veil, and to lead us to recover what we have lost."

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Rabindranath Tagore Poet, Playwright, Novelist
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"The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of matter to the highest existence on earth, the human soul. The whole universe is in fact the result of this struggle for freedom."

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul"

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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
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"I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything."

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Aristotle Philosopher
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"Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that."

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