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 AUROBINDOThe existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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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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Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
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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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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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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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Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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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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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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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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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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