When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
SRI AUROBINDOAll thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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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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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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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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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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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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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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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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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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Man in the world’s life works out the dreams of God.
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Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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Hidden nature is secret God.
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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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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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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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