To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
SRI AUROBINDOBe conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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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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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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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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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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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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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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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at 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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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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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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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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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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