Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
SRI AUROBINDOThe first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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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 Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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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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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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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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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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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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But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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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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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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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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The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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