The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
SRI AUROBINDOA 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The 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.
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That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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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 practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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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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Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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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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All existence is a manifestation of God.
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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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