Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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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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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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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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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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Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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The 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.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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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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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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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 end is the freedom of the spirit.
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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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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Recover 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.
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