Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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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Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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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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Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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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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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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The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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