Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
SRI AUROBINDOOnly when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
SRI AUROBINDOArise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
SRI AUROBINDOMan in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
SRI AUROBINDOThere is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
SRI AUROBINDOSit 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.
SRI AUROBINDOKnowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
SRI AUROBINDOTurn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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.
SRI AUROBINDOOur actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
SRI AUROBINDOYoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
SRI AUROBINDOEvolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
SRI AUROBINDOThe supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
SRI AUROBINDOAll thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
SRI AUROBINDOShe saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
SRI AUROBINDOTo listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
SRI AUROBINDOYou have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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