Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
SRI AUROBINDOThe 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.
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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Hidden nature is secret God.
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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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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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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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Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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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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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.
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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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Be 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.
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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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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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