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.
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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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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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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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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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Hidden nature is secret God.
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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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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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