Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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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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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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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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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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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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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.
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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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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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