The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
SRI AUROBINDOThe great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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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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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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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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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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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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Hidden nature is secret God.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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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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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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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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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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