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.
SRI AUROBINDOThe 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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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 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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Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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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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You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
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An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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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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