Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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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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The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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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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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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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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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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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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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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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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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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