The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
SRI AUROBINDODeath is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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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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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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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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Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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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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Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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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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Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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