To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
SRI AUROBINDOOur actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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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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Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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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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While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
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Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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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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