Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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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There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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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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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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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.
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The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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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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Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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