Sri Aurobindo Quotes

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no belly button. But I agree that God is something eternal. Something cannot come out of nothing. I believe God is Everything. And I believe in infinity.

Only the impossible lasts forever.

It is certain because it is impossible.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.

It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile

Never being, but always at the edge of Being.

Like the hollow nothingness within the seed of a tree, which contains the potential of the entire tree, the experience of nothingness in the unmanifest field has within it the lively potential of everything in creation.

Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos.

Moreover, nature's blocks had to be eternal-because nothing can come from nothing.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

Water symbolizes the whole of potentiality - the source of all possible existence.

If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards [...] and here was an almond tree in bloom before me: I must reach out and cut a flowering branch. For, by believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired, whatever we have not irrigated with our blood to such a degree that it becomes strong enough to stride across the somber threshold of nonexistence.

We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.

TIME is not a thing that's ours to lose.

Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.

It is to believed because it is absurd.

I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening, contains everything. Every possibility, both perfect and putrid. Surely such mysteries are the most enticing things You grant us in this mortal mere -- the fruit in the garden, too, was like this. Unknown, and therefore infinite. Eve and her mate swallowed eternity, every possible thing, and made the world between them.