All existence is a manifestation of God.
SRI AUROBINDOTo hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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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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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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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Outside 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.
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The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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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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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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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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