What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
SRI AUROBINDOStand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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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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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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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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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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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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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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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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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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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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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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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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