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There Are All Kinds Of People, And In The Attempt To Build Up A Solidarity Among Them, Defects Of Each One Affect All The Others.

That Within Us Which Seeks To Know And To Progress Is Not The Mind But Something Behind It Which Makes Use Of It.

The Yoga We Practice Is Not For Ourselves Alone, But For The Divine; Its Aim Is To Work Out The Will Of The Divine In The World, To Effect A Spiritual Transformation And To Bring Down A Divine Nature And A Divine Life Into The Mental, Vital And Physical Nature And Life Of Humanity. Its Object Is Not Personal Mukti, Although Mukti Is A Necessary Condition Of The Yoga, But The Liberation And Transformation Of The Human Being. It Is Not Personal Ananda, But The Bringing Down Of The Divine Ananda - Christ's Kingdom Of Heaven, Our Satyayuga - Upon The Earth.

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.

Terrorism Thrives On Administrative Violence And Injustice; That Is The Only Atmosphere In Which It Can Thrive And Grow. It Sometimes Follows The Example Of Indiscriminate Violence From Above; It Sometimes, Though Very Rarely, Sets It From Below. But The Power Above Which Follows The Example From Below Is On The Way To Committing Suicide.