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.
SRI AUROBINDOWhile 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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All existence is a manifestation of God.
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The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
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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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Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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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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Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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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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But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
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The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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