The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
SRI AUROBINDORather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Hidden nature is secret God.
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