Sri Aurobindo Quotes

Just because one is spiritual doesn't mean that one doesn't like crocodile, cashmere. We live in a material world. We still experience these things. It doesn't mean to completely disregard them.

The goods of this world are most dear to me, but much dearer are peace of mind and my own honor.

We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl.

Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be.

I really appreciate the everyday stuff as far as material.

We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you.

We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?

They say money rule the world, you can’t pay God with it

Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not Spiritual. But we want you to remember that you are here in this very physical world where Spirit has materialized. You cannot separate yourself from the aspect of yourself that is Spiritual, and while you are here in these bodies you cannot separate yourselves from that which is physical or material. All of the magnificent things of a physical nature that are surrounding you are Spiritual in nature.

The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.

Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.

In one way, I'm never going to get out of this material world unless it's by His grace but then again, His grace is relative to the amount of desire I can manifest in myself.

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

Our success already exists on a spiritual level; it's a matter of pulling it into the physical world.

In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.

Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts

Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.

Riches and power, what is there more in the world? For money answereth all things-that is, all but soul concerns. It can neither be a price for souls while here, nor can that, with all the forces of strength, recover one out of hell fire.

You could have all the riches in the world, but it doesn't mean much without family.

Oh, I’m not a Berkeleian. I believe my back’s against this wall. I believe there’s a sten gun over there.

You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.

Human thought can literally transform the physical world .. we are the masters of our own universe

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.