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.
SRI AUROBINDOOnly when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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We are sons of God And must be even as he.
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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
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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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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
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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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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
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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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Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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