To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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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To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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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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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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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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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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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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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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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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