Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
SRI AUROBINDOSin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
SRI AUROBINDORather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
SRI AUROBINDOTrust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
SRI AUROBINDOThe 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.
SRI AUROBINDOAll existence is a manifestation of God.
SRI AUROBINDOA thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
SRI AUROBINDONot 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.
SRI AUROBINDOThe 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 AUROBINDOHe who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
SRI AUROBINDOThe soul in man is greater than his fate.
SRI AUROBINDOThe first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
SRI AUROBINDOMaterial things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
SRI AUROBINDOIndia saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
SRI AUROBINDOThe principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
SRI AUROBINDOIf India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
SRI AUROBINDOFaith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
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