The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
SRI AUROBINDOSit 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
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Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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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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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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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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The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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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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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.
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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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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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