The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
SRI AUROBINDOOne who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
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Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
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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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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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Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Hidden nature is secret God.
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The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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