When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
SRI AUROBINDOThe expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
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The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
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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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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you … political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
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Not 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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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.
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India saw from the beginning, – and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, – that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
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The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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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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Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.
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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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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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