What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
SRI AUROBINDOThe Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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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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Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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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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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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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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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 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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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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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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An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
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