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Quotes from Thoughts and Glimpses — Sri Aurobindo

1872–1950 India

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In a word, godhead; to remake ourselves in the divine image.

Thoughts and Glimpses (1916)

What is God after all ? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.

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To rotate on its own axis is not the one movement for the human soul. There is also its wheeling round the Sun of an inexhaustible illumination.

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And what is the end of the whole matter ? As if honey could taste itself and all its drops together and all its drops could taste each other and each the whole honeycomb as itself, so should the end be with God and the soul of man and the universe.

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The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Thoughts and Glimpses (1916)

Transform the divided individual into the world-personality; let all thyself be the divine. This is thy goal.

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

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Transform effort into an easy and sovereign overflowing of the soul-strength; let all thyself be conscious force. This is thy goal.

Thoughts and Glimpses (1916)

Transform enjoying into an even and objectless ecstasy; let all thyself be bliss. This is thy goal.

Thoughts and Glimpses (1916)

Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.

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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.

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When we have passed beyond willings, then we shall have Power. Effort was the helper; Effort is the bar.

Thoughts and Glimpses (1916)

When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge. Reason was the helper; Reason is the bar.

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When we have passed beyond humanity, then we shall be the Man. The Animal was the helper; the Animal is the bar.

Thoughts and Glimpses (1916)

Transform the Animal into the Driver of the herds; let all thyself be Krishna. This is thy goal.

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When we have passed beyond enjoyings, then we shall have Bliss. Desire was the helper; Desire is the bar.

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When we have passed beyond individualising, then we shall be real Persons. Ego was the helper; Ego is the bar.

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What then was the commencement of the whole matter ? Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being and plunged into numberless trillions of forms so that it might find itself innumerably.

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But that immergence is not in the nature of an annihilation. Extinction is not the fulfilment of all this search and passion, suffering and rapture. The game would never have been begun if that were to be its ending.

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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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