Sri Aurobindo Quotes

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

"This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too."

Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.

If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.

If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.

The baptism of the spirit will do for you, what a phone booth did for Clark Kent, it will change you into a different being.

We are gods in the chrysalis.

The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.

My body is a temple, and my temple needs redecorating.

God uses change to change us. He doesn’t use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!

When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant.

By daily dying, I have come to be.

I imagined my soul taking in these words like silicated water in the Petrified Forest, turning my wood to patterned agate. I liked it when my mother shaped me this way. I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.

The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.

When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.

The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in.

I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.

There is a wellspring of life within you where you can go for cleansing and transformation.