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.
SRI AUROBINDOOnly when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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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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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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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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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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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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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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An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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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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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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