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.
SRI AUROBINDOThe spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
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A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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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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Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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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.
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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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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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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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