SRI AUROBINDO QUOTES III

Indian poet & philosopher (1872-1950)

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.

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Thoughts and Aphorisms


Death fosters life that life may suckle death.

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Vasavadutta

Tags: death


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

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Gems from Sri Aurobindo


But few are those who tread the sunlit path;
Only the pure in soul can walk in light.

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Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

Tags: purity


There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.

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Gems from Sri Aurobindo

Tags: sleep


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

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Essays Divine and Human

Tags: truth


Our lives are God's messengers beneath the stars.

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Savitri


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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New Lamps for Old


New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths,
Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts.

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Savitri


Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.

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The Life Divine


Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

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Gems from Sri Aurobindo

Tags: knowledge


Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.

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Sri Aurobindo: The Hour of God and Other Writings


Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.

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Thoughts and Aphorisms

Tags: optimism


Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

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Thoughts and Glimpses

Tags: God


To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

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Sri Aurobindo: The Hour of God and Other Writings


My God is love and sweetly suffers all.

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Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

Tags: love


India is the guru of the nations, the physician of the human soul in its profounder maladies; she is destined once more to remould the life of the world and restore the peace of the human spirit.

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Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual

Tags: India


By your stumbling, the world is perfected.

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attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing

Tags: mistakes


Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.

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The Renaissance in India