What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic.

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

A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It is only the full emergence of the soul, the full descent of the native light and power of the Spirit and the consequent replacement or transformation and uplifting of our insufficient mental and vital nature by a spiritual and supramental Supernature that can effect this evolutionary miracle.

In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness.

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

What you call the psychic being is the mind of the vital. The heart is the seat of this mind. And this mind is the essence of the senses. It receives things from outside, acts upon things that are outside - knows, gives consent, takes interest in them. But this mind cannot be the Ishwara, but it is the knower, the giver of the consent.