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 AUROBINDOThe 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
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While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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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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The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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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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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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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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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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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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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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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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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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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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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
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