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Sri Aurobindo

264 quotes in 1155 categories

Across the threshold she enters a realm of stone gods, and the writer lists virtues like honesty, courage, and patience as steps toward a higher awareness. He teaches that delight is a secret path and that true progress looks to the future, not the past.

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Sri Aurobindo was an Indian philosopher, yogi and nationalist who helped the independence movement.

Quick Facts About Sri Aurobindo

Notable works: Savitri with Accents

About Sri Aurobindo

He wrote about full autonomy for India and took part in political activity. After being imprisoned and later released, he moved to Pondicherry to focus on spiritual practice and created Integral Yoga. His writings include the treatises The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, and the epic poem Savitri.

Quotes by Sri Aurobindo

The soul in man is greater than his fate...

Destiny

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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

Faces

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Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate.

Destiny

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Death fosters life that life may suckle death.

Death

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“By our stumbling the world is perfected”

Perfected

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Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all.

Fear

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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.

God

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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.

Funny

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Until you get a guidance from above you cannot be sure; but to get this guidance it requires time and sadhana.

Guidance

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

Indian

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Even in rags I am a god,fallen I am divine,high I triumph when down-trod,long I live when slain!

Divine

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

Enemies

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The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

Body

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

Dawn

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Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.

Anguish

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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.

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We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension…

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Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and Eternal Knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds…

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The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself…

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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…

Animal

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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…

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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

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Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.

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Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

Audience

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When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist…

Agnostic

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Terrorism thrives on administrative violence and injustice; that is the only atmosphere in which it can thrive and grow. It sometimes follows…

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For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or…

Body

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God does work through both pure and impure vessels but that does not mean that one should keep nature impure for ever.…

Action

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The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic…

Age

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All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut…

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Threefold are those supreme births of this divine force that is in the world, they are true, they are desirable; he moves…

Birth

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All religions have some truth in them, but none has the whole truth; all are created in time and finally decline and…

Decline

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Hinduism ... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible…

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“One who has shaped this world is ever its lord: Our errors are his steps upon the way; He works through the…

Divine guidance

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To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we…

Ambition

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“...below even our most obscure physical consciousness is a subconscious being in which as in a covering and supporting soil are all…

Śrī Aurobindo

Fitness

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“The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our…

Brahman

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Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim…

Action

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It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of…

Analysis

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The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its…

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Sri Aurobindo by topic

Mind (39) Life (37) Psychology (36) Men (32) Religion (27) Nature (26) Divine (26) Spirituality (22) Spiritual (20) Humans (20) Philosophy of Mind (19) Soul (19) Self (18) Consciousness (17) Inspirational (16) World (15) Truth (14) Spirit (14) Love (14)