Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
SRI AUROBINDOThe Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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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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The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
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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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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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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
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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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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 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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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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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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A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
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