A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
SRI AUROBINDORecover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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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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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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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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