Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
SRI AUROBINDOPeace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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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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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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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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All existence is a manifestation of God.
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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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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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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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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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An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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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 Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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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.
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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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Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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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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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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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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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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