Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
SRI AUROBINDOIf 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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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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The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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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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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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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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Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
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The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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All existence is a manifestation of God.
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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 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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Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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