In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
SRI AUROBINDOThe mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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 mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face.
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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
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Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.
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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
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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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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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Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
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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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One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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