Sri Aurobindo
Philosopher, Poet, Politician
"Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it."
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Sri Lanka
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Sri Chinmoy
Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
"If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world."
Sri Chinmoy
Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
"Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is."
Sri Aurobindo
Philosopher, Poet, Politician
"She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit."
Sri Aurobindo
Philosopher, Poet, Politician
"Hidden nature is secret God."
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"Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being."
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"I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, I should be there; I should be helping out."
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"The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race."
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"That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others."
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"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."
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"India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples."
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"By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself."
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"If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God."
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"Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri Lanka."
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"She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, - truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence."
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"India is the meeting-place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration."
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"Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect."
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"Whether you accept or reject it, God's Love for you is permanent."
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"Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite."
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"He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example."
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"The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach."
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"Today in Sri Lanka, Pope Francis visited a Buddhist temple. When asked why, the Pope said, 'Just keeping my options open. It's a dicey job market. You never know.'"
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"Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed."
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"Without mutual tolerance emerging as the foundation, terrible situations like those of Tibet and Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Rwanda, can never be effectively improved."
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