Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
SRI AUROBINDOTrust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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 first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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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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That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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Hidden nature is secret God.
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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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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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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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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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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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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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