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.
SRI AUROBINDOBut difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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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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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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Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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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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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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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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You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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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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