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 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of 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 mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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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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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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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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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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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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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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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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Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
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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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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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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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