Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
SRI AUROBINDOMan in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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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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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.
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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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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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A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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