Sri Aurobindo Quotes

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

The heart is always right - if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart - because mind is a creation of society. It has been educated. You have been given it by society, not by existence. The heart is unpolluted.

It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

I'm completely intuitive and I don't like to analyze things.

When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.

Women have an incredible ability to pick up on emotional signals. For example, there are some wolves that are so clever they have learned to dress up like sheep. Man says, "Looks like a sheep. Talks like a sheep." Woman says, "Ain't no sheep!"

If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.

The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.

Improvisation is really not so much remembering things. And this is what I do when I play. I forget things. When I go on the stage, I want my mind to be a blank, so that I can - things can come into me without my knowing where they came from.

Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.

The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.

There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate - when a particular course of action just feels right.

To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.

My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world.

If we do not work on all three levels -- body, feeling, mind -- the symptoms of our distress will keep returning, as the body goes on repeating the story stored in its cells until it is finally listened to and understood.

Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.