The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
SRI AUROBINDOTransform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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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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India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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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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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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The 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.
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Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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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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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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