The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
SRI AUROBINDOTo listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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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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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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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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The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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Hidden nature is secret God.
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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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