Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
SRI AUROBINDOEach victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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 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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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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The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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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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India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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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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Perfect 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.
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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