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.
SRI AUROBINDOThe all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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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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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 subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
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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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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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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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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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