Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
SRI AUROBINDOPerfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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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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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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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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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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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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When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
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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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But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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