Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
SRI AUROBINDOThe Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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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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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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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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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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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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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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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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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
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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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The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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