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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.

Sri Aurobindo

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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Creature Freedom Love Nature World
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
SRI AUROBINDO

Courage Development Doubt Experience See
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
SRI AUROBINDO

Enemy Force Ourselves
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
SRI AUROBINDO

Knowledge Thinking True Yourself
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Age Creativity Herself Human People
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Delight Force Hard Time Inspirational Key Master Open Pain Strength Suffering
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
SRI AUROBINDO

God Love Myself Suffering
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Manifestation Material World
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
SRI AUROBINDO

Human Politics Recover Source Strength World
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
SRI AUROBINDO

Embrace Forever Religion
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Divine Manifestation Oneself
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
SRI AUROBINDO

Condition Peace Stability
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
SRI AUROBINDO

Greatness Impossible Journey Possible
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
SRI AUROBINDO

Culture Economics Future Humanity Issue Knowledge Progress Spiritual
The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
SRI AUROBINDO

Identity Play True Universe
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
SRI AUROBINDO

Existence Human Ourselves Power Principle

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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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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