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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.

Sri Aurobindo

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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Meditation Mindset Silence Thinking
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Face Knowledge Wisdom
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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Heart Knowledge Sleep
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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Knowledge Listening Power Surface True
The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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Level Mindset Physical Spiritual
Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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Goal Intuition Light Order Transformation
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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Divine Expression Nature Power Trust
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Enemy Force Ourselves
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
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Greatness Race Spiritual
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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Effort Game God Perfection Resistance Sin Virtue
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
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Age Creativity Herself Human People
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.
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Atheist God Himself
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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Existence Harmony Problem
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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Choice Deep Wisdom
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.
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Culture Economics Future Humanity Issue Knowledge Progress Spiritual

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