The soul in man is greater than his fate.
SRI AUROBINDOFor all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
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The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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