Sri Aurobindo Quotes

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what you will - has a chance to well up and tell us how we shall go.

I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

Truth is first felt in the heart before the mind. Those that look for truth through the mind before the heart will never find Truth.

When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.

The eye sees more than the heart knows.

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

Your heart will always tell you what’s working and what’s not.

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

Listen to your hunches, pay attention to your intuition, do not dismiss your random thoughts, inspirations or ideas.... They could be giving you the best advice you ever had.

Intuition is just the sum of all your experience. The way I see it, everything you’ve experienced, everything you know, you think you know and didn’t know you knew is there in your subconscious lying dormant, as it were. As a rule you don’t notice the sleeping creature, it’s just there, snoring and absorbing new things, right. But now and then it blinks, stretches and tells you, hey, I’ve seen this picture before. And tells you where in the picture things belong.

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.