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.
SRI AUROBINDOLive within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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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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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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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 soul in man is greater than his fate.
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The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
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Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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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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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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