The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
SRI AUROBINDORemember 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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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.
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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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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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The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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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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You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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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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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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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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Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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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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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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Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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