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.
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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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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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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The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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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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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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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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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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