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.
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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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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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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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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Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
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The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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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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