"I swore that I would not suffer from……" — Sri Aurobindo
"I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me."
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Sri Aurobindo
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105 Quotes by Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo has 105 quotes on this site.
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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat…
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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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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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in…
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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he…
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To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at…
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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right…
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