Sri Aurobindo Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Fall Quotes

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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Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

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

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Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.

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There is no greater pride and glory than to be a perfect instrument of the Master.

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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.

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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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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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The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

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As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood.

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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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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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Man is a transitional being, he is not final; for in him and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees which climb to a divine supermanhood. The step from man towards superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth's evolution. There lies our destiny and the liberating key to our aspiring, but troubled and limited human existence — inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner Spirit and the logic of Nature's process.

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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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All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

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Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

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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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[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.

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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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