The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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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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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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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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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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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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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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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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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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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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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.
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Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
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