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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  Order, Middle

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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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  Mean, Mind, Doe

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “‌‌Bases of Yoga: Art of living”, p.3, editionNEXT.com

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• Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

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  Hypocrisy, Enemy, Selfishness

  "New Lamps for Old". Nine articles by Sri Aurobindo in the "Indu Prakash" (a Bombay daily newspaper), August 21, 1893.

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• The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

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  Teaching, Principles, Firsts

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1988). “Bulletin Du Centre International D'éducation Sri Aurobindo”

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• When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

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  Silence, Mind, Chance

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself.

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  Should Have, Perfection, Quality

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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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  World, Firsts, Paradox

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1988). “Bulletin Du Centre International D'éducation Sri Aurobindo”

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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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  Knowledge, Thinking, True Knowledge

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• Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.

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  Beautiful, Perseverance, Honesty

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• Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.

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  Happenings

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.

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  Wisdom, Reason, Born

  Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose, Mother (2003). “Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology”, p.43, Lotus Press

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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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  Inspiration, Love Is, Joy

  Sri Aurobindo Mandir, Calcutta, Aurobindo Ghose (1943). “Annual”

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• Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.

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  Evolution, Consciousness, Existence

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “The Future Evolution of Man: The Divine Life on Earth”, p.9, editionNEXT.com

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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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  Mind, Progress, Use

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• What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.

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  Children, Garden, Games

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1988). “Bulletin Du Centre International D'éducation Sri Aurobindo”

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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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  Light, Perfect, Black

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• The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Ideas, Scripture

  Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose (1993). “The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice”, p.352, Lotus Press

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• Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.

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  Peace, Firsts, Conditions

  Madhav Pundalik Pandit, Sri Aurobindo (1992). “Dictionary of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga”, p.182, Lotus Press

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• Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

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  Mean, Victory, Gains

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• Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future

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  Past, Dawn, Noon

  Sri Aurobindo (2000). “Essays on the Gita”, p.10, SriAurobindoAshram Publication Dept

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• Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it & use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.

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  Strength, God, Education

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• One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.

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  Lonely, Deeds, Courses

  Sri Aurobindo (1995). “Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol”, p.25, Lotus Press

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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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  Play, Games, Perfection

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1962). “Bulletin”

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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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  Spiritual, Fall, Soul

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• Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.

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  Unique, Privilege, World

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