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.
SRI AUROBINDOTrust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
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A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
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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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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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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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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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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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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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