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Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
— Sri Aurobindo
All existence is a manifestation of God.
— Sri Aurobindo
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
— Sri Aurobindo
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
— Sri Aurobindo
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
— Sri Aurobindo
Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
— Sri Aurobindo
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
— Sri Aurobindo
Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.
— Sri Aurobindo
It will not do to depend on the mind alone.
— Sri Aurobindo
Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent , even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity .
— Sri Aurobindo
One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
— Sri Aurobindo
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
— Sri Aurobindo
Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.
— Sri Aurobindo
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
— Sri Aurobindo
Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.
— Sri Aurobindo
New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts.
— Sri Aurobindo
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
— Sri Aurobindo
The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne.
— Sri Aurobindo
Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work.
— Sri Aurobindo
... for we perceive that this miraculous development is not the result of our own efforts: an eternal Perfection is moulding us into its own image.
— Sri Aurobindo
The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
— Sri Aurobindo
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
— Sri Aurobindo
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.
— Sri Aurobindo
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
— Sri Aurobindo
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
— Sri Aurobindo
Propaganda is necessary only for the sake of money!
— Sri Aurobindo
The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.
— Sri Aurobindo
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
— Sri Aurobindo
While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.
— Sri Aurobindo
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
— Sri Aurobindo
Do not allow things to intrude from outside.
— Sri Aurobindo
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
— Sri Aurobindo
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
— Sri Aurobindo
All can be done if the god-touch is there
— Sri Aurobindo
One must have first of all a solid foundation.
— Sri Aurobindo
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
— Sri Aurobindo
The Person is a bubble on Time's sea.
— Sri Aurobindo
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
— Sri Aurobindo
The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
— Sri Aurobindo
The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
— Sri Aurobindo
Still the invisible Magnet drew his soul
— Sri Aurobindo
Until you get a guidance from above you cannot be sure; but to get this guidance it requires time and sadhana.
— Sri Aurobindo
Death fosters life that life may suckle death.
— Sri Aurobindo
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.
— Sri Aurobindo
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
— Sri Aurobindo
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.
— Sri Aurobindo
Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.
— Sri Aurobindo
With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all.
— Sri Aurobindo
Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all.
— Sri Aurobindo
Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?
— Sri Aurobindo
To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature.
— Sri Aurobindo
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
— Sri Aurobindo
All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.
— Sri Aurobindo
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
— Sri Aurobindo
My love is not a hunger of the heart, My love is not a craving of the flesh; It came to me from God, to God returns.
— Sri Aurobindo
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.
— Sri Aurobindo
What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
— Sri Aurobindo
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
— Sri Aurobindo
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
— Sri Aurobindo
An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
— Sri Aurobindo
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.
— Sri Aurobindo
Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
— Sri Aurobindo
But though hast come and all will surely change.
— Sri Aurobindo
Hidden nature is secret God.
— Sri Aurobindo
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
— Sri Aurobindo
Our lives are God's messengers beneath the stars.
— Sri Aurobindo
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
— Sri Aurobindo
To feed death with her works is here life's doom.
— Sri Aurobindo
If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.
— Sri Aurobindo
We are sons of God
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This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.
— Sri Aurobindo
But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
— Sri Aurobindo
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
— Sri Aurobindo
Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.
— Sri Aurobindo
As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.
— Ken Wilber
There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.
— Sri Aurobindo
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
— Sri Aurobindo
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.
— Sri Aurobindo
Man in the world's life works out the dreams of God.
— Sri Aurobindo
All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.
— Sri Aurobindo
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— Sri Aurobindo