Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
SRI AUROBINDOKnowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
SRI AUROBINDOTo hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
SRI AUROBINDOMaterial things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
SRI AUROBINDOThe soul in man is greater than his fate.
SRI AUROBINDOLove is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
SRI AUROBINDOWhen mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
SRI AUROBINDOOur human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
SRI AUROBINDOOne mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
SRI AUROBINDOOutside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
SRI AUROBINDOThe inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
SRI AUROBINDORemember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
SRI AUROBINDOIn order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
SRI AUROBINDOThe 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.
SRI AUROBINDOThe 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.
SRI AUROBINDOPerfect 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.
SRI AUROBINDOOne has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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