Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
SRI AUROBINDOThe Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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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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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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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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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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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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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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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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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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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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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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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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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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