India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
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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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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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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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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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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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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The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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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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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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