What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
SRI AUROBINDOThere is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When 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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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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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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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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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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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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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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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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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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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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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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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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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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You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
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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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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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