By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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 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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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
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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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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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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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