Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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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The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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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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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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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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The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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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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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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