But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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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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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 supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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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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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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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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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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All existence is a manifestation of God.
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The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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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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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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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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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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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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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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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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