Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
SRI AUROBINDORather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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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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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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The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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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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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.
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Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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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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The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
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If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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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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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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