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For four years, from an artistic point of view, I lived from wonder to wonder.

— Mirra Alfassa

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If ever I leave my body, my consciousness will remain with you.

The Best way to express one's gratitude to the Divine is to feel simply happy.

The project of Auroville is to work for the advent of a progressive universal harmony.

They do not feel bound by the customary rules of conduct and have not yet found an inner law that would replace them.

Yes, indeed, I do feel the weight of the world's miseries pressing upon me!

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José Ortega y Gasset The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel (1925)

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