Sri Aurobindo on mindset
Sri Aurobindo117 quotes“Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.”
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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
Sri AurobindoSri Aurobindo There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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