Sri Aurobindo

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The soul in man is greater than his fate.

 

The Truth is known only when all is seen.

 

There is a silence behind life as well as within it and it is only in

this more secret, sustaining silence that we can hear clearly the

voice of God.

 

Beauty is his footprint showing us where he has passed.

 

All music is only the sound of His laughter.

 

O Poet, O Artist .... It is the secret soul of Nature thou hast to

seize, thou hast hunt eternally after the truth in the eternal symbol,

and that no mirror will hold for thee, nor for her whom thou seekest.

 

Be wider than the widest horizons, be loftier than the highest

Kanchanjungha, profounder than the deepest oceans.

 

Courage and love are the only indispensable virtues; even if all the

others are eclipsed or fall asleep, these two will save the soul alive.

 

Kindness and generosity are the soul's ethereal firmament; without

them, one looks at an insect in a dungeon.

 

Equality is to remain unmoved within in all circumstances.

 

Let not thy virtues be such as men praise or reward, but such as make

for thy perfection and God in thy nature demands of thee.