He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
SRI AUROBINDODetachment is the beginning of mastery.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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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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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 mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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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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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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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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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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