Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
SRI AUROBINDOLife 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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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 expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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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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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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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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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
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Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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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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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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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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