Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
SRI AUROBINDONot only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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