Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
SRI AUROBINDOThe practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
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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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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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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.
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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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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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