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.
SRI AUROBINDOIndia 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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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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The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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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 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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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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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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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.
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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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