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.
SRI AUROBINDOA God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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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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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
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The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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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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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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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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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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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 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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