By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
SRI AUROBINDOWatch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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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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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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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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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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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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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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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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The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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