Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
SRI AUROBINDOOur human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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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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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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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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The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
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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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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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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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The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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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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A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
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