The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
SRI AUROBINDOTurn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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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 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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The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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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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Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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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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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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