When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
SRI AUROBINDOWhile 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Only 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.
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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.
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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.
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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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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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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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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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Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
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