The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
SRI AUROBINDOWitness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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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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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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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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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
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The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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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 has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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