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 AUROBINDOTransform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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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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Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.
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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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But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
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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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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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The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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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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