What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
SRI AUROBINDOAn 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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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 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 mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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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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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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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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The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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