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.
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; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
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The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
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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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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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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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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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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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Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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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.
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The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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