What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
SRI AUROBINDOWe cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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 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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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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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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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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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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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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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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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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