All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

The supramental transformation, the supramental evolution must carry with it a lifting of mind, life and body out of themselves into a greater way of being in which yet their own ways and powers would be, not suppressed or abolished, but perfected and fulfilled by the self-exceeding.

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?

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.

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

The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.