Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
SRI AUROBINDOThe only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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Not 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.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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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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Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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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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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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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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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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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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