Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
SRI AUROBINDONot 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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Life 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.
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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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A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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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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Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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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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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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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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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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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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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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