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.
SRI AUROBINDOThe 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.
More Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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The soul in man is greater than his fate.
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By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
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A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
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Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
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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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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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Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
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For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
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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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When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
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Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
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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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