Quotes from Sri Aurobindo

Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

My God is love and sweetly suffers all.

India is the guru of the nations, the physician of the human soul in its profounder maladies; she is destined once more to remould the life of the world and restore the peace of the human spirit.

By your stumbling, the world is perfected.

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.

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

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

Life is life — whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

Hidden nature is secret God.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

The Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements.

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

To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant.

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

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

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.

Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.

Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.