Stumbled upon

[pjthompson]

Random quote of the day:

“By your stumbling, the world is perfected.”

—Sri Aurobindo

 

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Comments

[rudi12.livejournal.com]

wise words.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Yes. I try to remember them when I stumble.

[rudi12.livejournal.com]

I like his teaching. and in connection with the quote I found also this of him:
We must not only cut asunder the snare of the mind and the senses, but flee also from the snare of the thinker, the snare of theologian and the church-builder, the meshes of the Word and the bondage of the Idea. All these are within us waiting to wall in the spirit with forms; but we must always go beyond, always denounce the lesser the greater, the finite for the Infinite; we must be prepared to proceed from illumination to illumination, from experience to experience, from soul state to soul state… Nor must we attach ourselves even to truths we hold most securely, for they are but forms and expressions of the ineffable who refuses to limit itself to any form or expression.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I think he's right. But it's so hard to do when the day-to-day world presses down on you. I think the best most of us can do is to periodically remind ourselves that there's something beyond that day-to-day, something that transcends "practical" concerns. And try not to be a prisoner of Things!

[rudi12.livejournal.com]

As Socrates said: How many things I don't need!