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.
SRI AUROBINDOWhen mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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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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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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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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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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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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That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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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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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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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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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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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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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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