Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
Sri AurobindoRead
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.
Interpretation
Observing and appreciating nature is essential for spiritual liberation.
The quote emphasizes the importance of witnessing nature as a pathway to gaining freedom for the soul. By standing back and observing the beauty and complexity of the natural world, one can cultivate a deeper understanding of life and eventually attain a sense of spiritual liberation.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a meditation retreat to inspire participants to connect with nature.
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.
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.
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region, where it is condensed again by the cold and so returns to the earth. This, as we have said before, is the regular course of nature.
Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man
The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that_x000D_ comes, the petal falls.
We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.
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