He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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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.
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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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When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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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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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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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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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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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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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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