Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
SRI AUROBINDOCare not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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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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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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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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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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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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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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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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