Sri Aurobindo Quotes

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.

How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his in the wind like chaff, But yours you hide, Like a cheat covering up an unlucky throw. Dwelling on your brother's faults Multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.

My dad would always say, "When you look at a photo do you see yourself last?"

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

I am a really sensitive person.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Women, the way I see it, are very evolved people. They're more mature, they're more aware of their feelings, in touch with their feelings. They're connected to things that matter more in life. They know what's important. Men basically run around like idiots until we meet somebody who can show us that those things are important.

I wrote an episode for 'thirtysomething,' and a producer said, 'That's really good, but what is it about? What does it say about you? What questions are you asking yourself?' I had never thought about that. This comment changed who I was, because it made me look at my own soul, the dark corners in my soul, and accept that dark side.

In every person, you have a world of personalities and souls, a world of perspectives that you can share. You can get into anyone's shoes. You've got to be willing to stare at the ugliest part of yourself and deal with it.

I write to make some sense of things that confuse me. The mechanics of my own heart are the most confusing I know about - and don't know about - and other people's are a bit confusing, too.

I respect anybody that is very in tune with their feelings.

I am a very sensitive person.