The soul in man is greater than his fate.
SRI AUROBINDOTo listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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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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Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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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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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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