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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.

Sri Aurobindo

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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Body Determination Live Nature
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Carry Mindset Movement Observation Quiet Separate True
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
SRI AUROBINDO

Mindset Progress Seek
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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Development Divine Help Intellectual
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
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Beginning Master One Liner
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
SRI AUROBINDO

Divine Honey Law Live
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
SRI AUROBINDO

Atheist God Himself Play Shadow
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
SRI AUROBINDO

Face Ourselves Practice
All existence is a manifestation of God.
SRI AUROBINDO

Existence God Manifestation
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
SRI AUROBINDO

Essence Experience Mindset Remember Right Soul Touch
The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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Cleaning Divine Empty
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
SRI AUROBINDO

Chance Mindset Purity Silence
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Meditation Mindset Silence Thinking
Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
SRI AUROBINDO

Act Consciousness Idea Material Play Preparation Thinking
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
SRI AUROBINDO

Heart Knowledge Sleep

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 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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