The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
SRI AUROBINDOThe whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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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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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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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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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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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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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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The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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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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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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