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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.

Sri Aurobindo

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
SRI AUROBINDO

Calm Live Peace Shake
Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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Advantage Difference Life Man
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Knowledge Listening Power Surface True
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Average Discover Genius Talent
If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
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Energy Force Nature Ocean Survive Water Young
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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Development Divine Help Intellectual
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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Action Command Expression Intution Talk Way
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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Cleaning Experience Past People Rejection Willing
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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Cry Emotion Enemy Force Hypocrisy Sentiment Weakness
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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Afford Institution Machine Ourselves Raise Simplicity Slave
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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Acceptance Appearance Knowledge Man Reason
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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God Imagination Laughter Listening People
One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
SRI AUROBINDO

Divine Manifestation Oneself
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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Achievement Faith Manifestation Realize Soul Worth
Hidden nature is secret God.
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God Hide Nature One Liner Secret
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
SRI AUROBINDO

Person Sea Time

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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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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