Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
SRI AUROBINDOYou have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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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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The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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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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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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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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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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