The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
SRI AUROBINDOShe 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
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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 mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
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The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
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The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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All existence is a manifestation of God.
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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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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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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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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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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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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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