The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
SRI AUROBINDONot 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of 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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The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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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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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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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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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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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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