Sri Aurobindo

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.

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.

All true love and all sacri_e arein their essence Nature__ contradiction of the primary egoism andits separative error; it is her attempt to turn from a necessary _stfragmentation towards a recovered oneness. All unity betweencreatures is in its essence a self-_ding, a fusion with that fromwhich we have separated, a discovery of one__ self in others.But it is only a divine love and unity that can possess in the light what the human forms of these things seek for inthe darkness.

When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellant, but I could no longer find them.

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.