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Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.

Sri Aurobindo

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Sri Aurobindo
Age: 78 †
Born: 1872
Born: August 15
Died: 1950
Died: December 5
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