Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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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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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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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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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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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But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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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 experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
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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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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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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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