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.
SRI AUROBINDOLife 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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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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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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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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Hidden nature is secret God.
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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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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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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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