A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
SRI AUROBINDOA great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
SRI AUROBINDOIf 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.
SRI AUROBINDOThe practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
SRI AUROBINDOSin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
SRI AUROBINDOAll thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
SRI AUROBINDOEvolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
SRI AUROBINDOFaith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
SRI AUROBINDOMy God is love and sweetly suffers all.
SRI AUROBINDORecover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
SRI AUROBINDOBe conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
SRI AUROBINDOThe expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
SRI AUROBINDOThe meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
SRI AUROBINDOThe only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
SRI AUROBINDOYou have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
SRI AUROBINDOOutside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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.
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