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 AUROBINDOTrust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
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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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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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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 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.
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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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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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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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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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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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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