Sri Aurobindo Quotes

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself.

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.

True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

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.

Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.

There is no greater pride and glory than to be a perfect instrument of the Master.

When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.

Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.

Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it & use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.

You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.

Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality..... To rest in or follow after an inferior potentiality may seem safe, rational, comfortable, easy, but it ends badly, in some futility or in a mere circling down the abyss or in a stagnant morass. Our right and natural road is towards the summits.

Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.