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 AUROBINDONot 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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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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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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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
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Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
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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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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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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.
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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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All existence is a manifestation of God.
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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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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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