Quotes from Sri Aurobindo

The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.

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

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.

Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.

Hidden nature is secret God.

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

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.

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.

Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.

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

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

[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.

All existence is a manifestation of God.

Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.

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

A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.

Our lives are God's messengers beneath the stars.

Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.

We are sons of God And must be even as he.