Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo117 quotes“The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.”
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Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo 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.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo 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.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo Hidden nature is secret God.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo 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.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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