Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
SRI AUROBINDOThe 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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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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Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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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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The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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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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All existence is a manifestation of God.
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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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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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The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
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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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