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.
SRI AUROBINDOPeace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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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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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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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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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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India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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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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When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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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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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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