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.
SRI AUROBINDOAll existence is a manifestation of God.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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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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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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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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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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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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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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