You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
SRI AUROBINDOKnowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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The 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.
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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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When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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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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Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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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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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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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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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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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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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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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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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 inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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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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