In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
SRI AUROBINDOStand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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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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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
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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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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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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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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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