That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
SRI AUROBINDOSit 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
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Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
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That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
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A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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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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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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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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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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Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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