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.
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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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
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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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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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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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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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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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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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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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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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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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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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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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