That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
SRI AUROBINDOYou have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
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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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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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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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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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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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While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
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Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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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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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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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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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
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Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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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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