But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
SRI AUROBINDODetachment is the beginning of mastery.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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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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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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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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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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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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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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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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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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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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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 doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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