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.
SRI AUROBINDOStand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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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.
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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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The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
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The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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