The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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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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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Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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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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A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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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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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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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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