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.
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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Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
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Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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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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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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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 few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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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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