When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
SRI AUROBINDOThe mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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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.
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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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.
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To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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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 Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
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We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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