Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
SRI AUROBINDOTransform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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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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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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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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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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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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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 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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Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
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The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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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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The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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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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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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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 spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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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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