Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo117 quotes“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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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo 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.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo 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.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo 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.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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