JUST DANCE TO THE BEAT OF YOUR SOUL.
THE PAIN OF LIFE IS THE PRICE PAID FOR THE QUICKENING OF THE HEART.
THE LOVER OF NATURE IS THE TRUE WORSHIPPER OF GOD. HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
YOUR OWN REALIZATION is the greatest service you can render the world. RAMANA MAHARSHI
I THINK we’re challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves. RACHEL CARSON
SRI AUROBINDO 1872-1950. “The Life Divine” “Integral Yoga”.
WHEN MIND IS STILL, then the truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
NO GREAT MIND HAS EVER EXISTED WITHOUT A TOUCH OF MADNESS. ARISTOTLE
SPEAK WHEN YOU ARE ANGRY and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. AMBROSE BIERCE
ALL THAT IS GOLD DOES NOT GLITTER, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crown less again shall be king. J.R.R.TOLKIEN
SRI AUROBINDO. 1872-1950. “The Life Divine”, “Integral Yoga”.
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.
OUR ACTUAL ENEMY is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
WHEN MIND IS STILL, then the truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF TRUE TEACHING IS THAT NOTHING CAN BE TAUGHT.
IN ORDER TO SEE, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture.
AN AIMLESS LIFE IS ALWAYS A TROUBLED LIFE. Every individual should have an aim. but do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself.
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.
TRUE KNOWLEDGE is not attained by thinking. It is what your are; it is what you become.
LIVE WITHIN; BE NOT SHAKEN BY OUTWARD HAPPENINGS.
WHEN WE HAVE PASSED BEYOND KNOWINGS, then we shall have Knowledge.
LOVE IS THE KEYNOTE, joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite ALL is the composer and audience.
WHEN REASON DIED, THEN WISDOM WAS BORN.
EACH VICTORY GAINED OVER ONESELF means new strength to gain more victories.
WAR is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.
THE DIVINE TRUTH is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
PEACE IS THE FIRST CONDITION, WITHOUT WHICH NOTHING ELSE CAN BE STABLE.
EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
EVERYONE HAS IN HIM SOMETHING DIVINE, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it and use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.
WITNESS AND STAND BACK FROM NATURE, THAT IS THE FIRST STEP TO THE SOUL’S FREEDOM.
ONE WHO LOVES GOD FINDS THE OBJECT OF HIS LOVE EVERYWHERE.
THE SOUL IN MAN IS GREATER THAN HIS FATE.
DETACHMENT IS THE BEGINNING OF MASTERY.
THE SUPREME END IS THE FREEDOM OF THE SPIRIT.
THE ATHEIST IS GOD PLAYING AT HIDE AND SEEK WITH HIMSELF.
TO HOPE FOR A TRUE CHANGE OF HUMAN LIFE without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
TRANSFORM REASON into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.
A GREAT THING would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
THE PRINCIPLE OF YOGA is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
HE WHO CHOOSES THE INFINITE HAS BEEN CHOSEN BY THE INFINITE.
THE INSIDE must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration — a state of awaiting.
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.
THE EXPRESSION ‘FROM ABOVE’ is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action — we call it intuition.
ONE MIGHTY DEED can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
ONE HAS TO DO SADHANA FOR THE TOTAL MANIFESTATION OF THE DIVINE IN ONESELF.
THE SUBLIMINAL MIND receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
THE PRACTICE OF YOGA brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
THE MIND HAS THESE FOUR LEVELS: physical, vital, buddha, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
A GOD WHO CANNOT SMILE, COULD NOT HAVE CREATED THIS HUMOROUS UNIVERSE.
WHAT A MAN!