You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
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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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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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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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.
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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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To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
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Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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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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