Sri Aurobindo Quotes, Art Quotes, Doors Quotes

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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Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, - they have the play of their mental movements in the head itself. But all these are inside the body; man is, as it were, shut up in a box, his entire consciousness is confined within the organism. This imprisonment has to be undone.

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Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

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After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above.

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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.

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Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest religion becomes no more than a broad sect or branch of the one universal religion, by which we shall understand in the future man's seeking for the eternal, the divine, the greater self, the source of unity and his attempt to arrive at some equation, some increasing approximation of the values of human life with the eternal and the divine values.

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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

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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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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.

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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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Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate.

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The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne.

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A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.

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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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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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With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all.

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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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Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?

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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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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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