Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
SRI AUROBINDOOur actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
SRI AUROBINDOThe inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
SRI AUROBINDOEach victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
SRI AUROBINDOWhat the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
SRI AUROBINDOWhat is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
SRI AUROBINDOThe 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.
SRI AUROBINDOTo doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
SRI AUROBINDOYou carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
SRI AUROBINDOA quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
SRI AUROBINDOThe 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.
SRI AUROBINDOMan in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
SRI AUROBINDOMy God is love and sweetly suffers all.
SRI AUROBINDOThe principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
SRI AUROBINDOThe great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
SRI AUROBINDONot 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.
SRI AUROBINDOImpossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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