The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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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Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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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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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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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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Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
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Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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All existence is a manifestation of God.
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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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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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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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