You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Hidden nature is secret God.
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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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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Recover 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.
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The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
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The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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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 highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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