Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
SRI AUROBINDOPerfect 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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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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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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When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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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 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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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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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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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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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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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.
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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