The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
SRI AUROBINDOThe fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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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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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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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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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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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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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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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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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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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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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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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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