All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
SRI AUROBINDOFor all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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India 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.
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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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Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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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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The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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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 inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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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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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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Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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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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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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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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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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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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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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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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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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