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.
SRI AUROBINDOShe 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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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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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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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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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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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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