Sri Aurobindo on expression
Sri Aurobindo117 quotes“Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.”
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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 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.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo 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 AurobindoSri Aurobindo 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.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo 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 AurobindoSri Aurobindo What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo We are sons of God And must be even as he.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
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