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Mind Quotes by Sri Aurobindo

39 Mind quotes by Sri Aurobindo

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Sri Aurobindo explains that the mind has many layers, from the mechanical physical part to higher spiritual levels. He says stillness lets truth appear, while a busy mind tries to stretch small facts into big ideas. He also notes that the deepest mind remembers the soul’s gentle touches.

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The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

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It will not do to depend on the mind alone.

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In order to satisfy the vital being, it must be offered some activity, and at the same time the mind should be…

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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…

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Your mind has some clearness and capacity for right thinking; it opens towards the heights, but for its own sake, - to…

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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…

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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…

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The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by…

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There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also…

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Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

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As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it…

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What is required is faith. Man has body, life and mind but that is not all that constitutes man. He has risen…

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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still,…

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Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most…

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Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead…

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The mind is running on all sides to think about many things, - what we call thoughts coming from outside. We must…

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The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic…

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The psychic being and the mental being, Manomaya Purusha, are not the same. The psychic being is behind the mind, it is…

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For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or…

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Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind. It is this dominant inclination of India which gives character to all the…

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The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its…

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“The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our…

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With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch…

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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…

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When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the 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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While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.

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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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In the normal play of our mind there are all sorts of perversions; hence the need to stop all these things and…

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The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to…

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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…

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The supramental transformation, the supramental evolution must carry with it a lifting of mind, life and body out of themselves into a…

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What you call the psychic being is the mind of the vital. The heart is the seat of this mind. And this…

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After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty…

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Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, - they have the play of their mental movements…

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The consciousness of the supreme Purusha remains above, but in the mind there may be a Purusha consciousness which they call the…

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I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made…

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Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it…

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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our…

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A hidden Bliss is at the root of things. A mute Delight regards Time's countless works: To house God's joy in things Space gave…