That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
SRI AUROBINDOThe meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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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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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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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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Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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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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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
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