336 Quotes by Sri Aurobindo

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    The Force which has to be called down from above must be pure and quiet because there are all kinds of forces – it will not do to call them all. And one must have sincerity.

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    Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.

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    Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.

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    The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.

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

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    Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.

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    Life is life--whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

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    There are two ways of avoiding the snare of woman; one is to shun all women and the other to love all beings.

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