336 Quotes by Sri Aurobindo

The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration – a state of awaiting.

A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.

You have a strong active nature. And this in you is a point of strength. If you can mould it rightly this will become a very great strength. On the other hand, this too is your weak point – a hindrance in sadhana.

The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material.

Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture.

The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.

Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent, even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity .

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.