If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
SRI AUROBINDOThe Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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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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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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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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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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The 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.
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The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed 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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