We are sons of God And must be even as he.
SRI AUROBINDOTrue knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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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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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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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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But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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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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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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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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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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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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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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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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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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The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
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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 Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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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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