To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
SRI AUROBINDOEach victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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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 only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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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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But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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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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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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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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