To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
SRI AUROBINDOStand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.
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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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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.
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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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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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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
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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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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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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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He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
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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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Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
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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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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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