The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
SRI AUROBINDOEvolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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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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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
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Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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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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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.
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The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
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The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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