What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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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Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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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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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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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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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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