You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
SRI AUROBINDOWhat is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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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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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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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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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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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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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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All existence is a manifestation of God.
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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 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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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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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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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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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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