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 AUROBINDOOne who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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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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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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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 Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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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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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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