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 AUROBINDOIndia saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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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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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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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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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.
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Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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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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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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All existence is a manifestation of God.
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The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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