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.
SRI AUROBINDOThe 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
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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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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
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You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
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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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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
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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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The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
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