To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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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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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 difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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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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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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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Hidden nature is secret God.
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The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
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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.
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Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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