But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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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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The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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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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Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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We 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.
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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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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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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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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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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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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 Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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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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Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
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