Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
SRI AUROBINDOThe Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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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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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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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.
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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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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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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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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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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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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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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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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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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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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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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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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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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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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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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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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