For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
SRI AUROBINDONo danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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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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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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To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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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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Faith 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.
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
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An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
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We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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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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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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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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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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You 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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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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A 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.
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