A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
SRI AUROBINDOThat within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Outside 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.
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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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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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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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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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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 supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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If 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.
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The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
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If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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