The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
SRI AUROBINDOThe Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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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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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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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.
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That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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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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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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A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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