When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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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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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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All existence is a manifestation of God.
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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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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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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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Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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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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