The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
SRI AUROBINDOOur actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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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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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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Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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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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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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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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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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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 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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Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
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