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.
SRI AUROBINDOArise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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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.
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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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To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
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The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
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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.
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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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There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
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The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
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There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
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Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
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Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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