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 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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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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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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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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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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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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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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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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