Sri Aurobindo Quotes

With renunciation life begins.

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.

The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.

When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.

The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything

Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest." "I am Thou." Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad.

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.