Inspirational Quotations by Sri Aurobindo
- What then was the commencement of the whole matter?
Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight
of being and plunged into numberless trillions
of forms so that it might find itself innumerably.
- Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
- 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.
- Hatred is the sign of a secret attraction that is eager to flee from itself and furious to deny its own existence. That too is God's play in His creature.
- Hard is it to be in the world, free, yet living the life of ordinary men; but because it is hard, therefore it must be attempted and accomplished.
- Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body ? This first we ought to determine.
- To commit adultery with God is the perfect experience for which the world was created.
- If the will is fixed on the purpose it sets itself to accomplish, then circumstances will suggest the right course; but the schemer finds himself always tripped up by the unexpected.
- Arise, transcend thyself. Thou art man and the whole nature of man is to become more than himself.
- We have to create strength where it did not exist before; we have to change our natures, and become new men with new hearts, to be born again.
- When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly.