But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
SRI AUROBINDONo danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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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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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 cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
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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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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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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
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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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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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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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Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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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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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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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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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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