Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
SRI AUROBINDOTransform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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All existence is a manifestation of God.
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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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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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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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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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To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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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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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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The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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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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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.
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