There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
SRI AUROBINDOThe inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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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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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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The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.
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Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
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Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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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.
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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
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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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Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.
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Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
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The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
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The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea.
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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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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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The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
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