Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
SRI AUROBINDOWhat is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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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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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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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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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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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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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.
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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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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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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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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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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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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 Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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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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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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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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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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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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