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.
SRI AUROBINDOOne has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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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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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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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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Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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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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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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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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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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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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Hidden nature is secret God.
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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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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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