Sri Aurobindo Quotes - Page 10

And, in order to possess the Truth, the plays of the lower nature must be stopped.

Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all.

What have I to forgive and whom?

Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.

Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.

To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.

It will not do to depend on the mind alone.

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

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.

Death fosters life that life may suckle death.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.

What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of voting, in which direction it will turn.

Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind.

Do not be eager for things above.

New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts.

There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err.

To feed death with her works is here life's doom.

Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, "What have I to forgive and whom?"

To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature.

On the top of the head is a Chakra - Sahasradala or the thousand-petalled lotus. There is a Chakra in the middle of the forehead between the eyebrows and one in the heart-centre. The region between the navel and head constitutes the mental field. From navel downward extending till the terminus of the spinal chord, mūlādhāra, is the seat of the vital.