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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo 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.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo 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.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo
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