Sri Aurobindo Quotes

Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the 'educated' person.

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear.

For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a witness to their thoughts, so to speak. They are not completely identified with their mind anymore and so they begin to sense that there is a depth to them that they had never known before.

When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.

To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?

Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.

Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.

Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.

Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.

The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

May love fill your heart, compassion guide your mind, faith rule your soul.