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.
SRI AUROBINDOWhen mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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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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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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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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The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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