Sri Aurobindo Quotes

In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.

Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.

Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.

Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline.

I attribute my talent and my success to God, but I believe that the only way you can manifest what He has ordained for you is by being close to Him and by making it happen. But we have to stay close to Him in order to be an image of Him.

To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.

It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.

If your life consistently bears no fruit, God will intervene to discipline you. If your life bears some fruit, God will intervene to prune you. If your life bears a lot of fruit, God will invite you to abide more deeply with Him.

One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

The Ultimate expression of Humility comes when we control our senses.

Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

There is only one way by which you can achieve prosperity. It is to take charge of your mind.

Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.

Before you go out there and try to conquer the universe... get your act together.

Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.

We go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power.

The person who properly disciplines himself to do those things that he does not especially care to do, becomes successful.