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 AUROBINDOOnly when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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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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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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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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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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An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
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Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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