After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above.

The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.

The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.

Do not allow things to intrude from outside.

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.

That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.

I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.