Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
SRI AUROBINDOOne has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
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You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
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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 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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Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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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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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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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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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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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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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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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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Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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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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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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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 mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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