The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
SRI AUROBINDOThe principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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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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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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All existence is a manifestation of God.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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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.
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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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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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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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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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