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Quotes About Spirituality

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.
~ Sri Aurobindo
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
~ Sri Aurobindo
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.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinite is native to it. India saw from the beginning -- and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight -- that life cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
~ Sri Aurobindo
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the eternal religion, because it is the universal religion which embraces all others.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Religions, creeds and forms are only a characteristic outward sign of the spiritual impulsion and religion itself is the intensive action by which it tries to find its inward force. Its expansive movement comes in the thought which it throws out on life, the ideals which open up new horizons and which the intellect accepts and life labours to assimilate.
~ Sri Aurobindo
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Our lives are God's messengers beneath the stars.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
~ Sri Aurobindo
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
~ Sri Aurobindo
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
~ Sri Aurobindo
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
~ Sri Aurobindo
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
~ Sri Aurobindo
[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Hidden nature is secret God.
~ Sri Aurobindo
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
~ Sri Aurobindo
We meditate for various reasons. Peace of mind we all badly need. Therefore, when we meditate, either consciously or unconsciously we aim at peace of mind. Meditation give us peace of mind without a tranquilliser. And unlike a tranquilliser, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart
~ Sri Chinmoy
War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself
~ Sri Chinmoy
Meditate Silently. You will be able to create A totally new life For Yourself
~ Sri Chinmoy
Cry within. Meditate within. Dive within. Your inner achievements will far outweigh your outer imperfections
~ Sri Chinmoy
Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile
~ Sri Chinmoy
Excerpt from Meditation: God Speaks And I Listen
~ Sri Chinmoy