While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
SRI AUROBINDOThe Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
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We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
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But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
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Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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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.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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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 supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
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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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Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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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.
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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
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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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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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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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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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She 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.
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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
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