An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
SRI AUROBINDOA God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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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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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All existence is a manifestation of God.
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Hidden nature is secret God.
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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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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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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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To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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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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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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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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