Sri Aurobindo Quotes

The Truth-power must be brought down from above into that state of peace, and this higher power - Parashakti - will directly guide the vehicle - ādhāra - and transform it.

Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.

Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.

What have I to forgive and whom?

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.

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

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.

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.

Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work.

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.

But though hast come and all will surely change.

The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:It longed for the adventure of Ignorance

Still the invisible Magnet drew his soul

For what the Spirit sees becomes a truthAnd what the soul imagines is made a world

Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in the mortal's heart

... 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.

All can be done if the god-touch is there