Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
SRI AUROBINDOFor all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
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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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When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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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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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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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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Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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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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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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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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All existence is a manifestation of God.
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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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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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