The 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.
SRI AUROBINDOTo have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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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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The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
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The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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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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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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