Light from Aurobindo

Arise, transcend thyself, become thyself. Thou art man and the whole nature of man is to become more than himself.

Each is a greatness growing towards the heights, Or from his inner centre oceans out. There are greatnesses in our unseen parts That wai...

This...is the first necessity, that the individual, each individual, shall discover the spirit, the divine reality within him and expres...

Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers ...

Let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.

To catch the boundless in a net of birth, To cast the spirit into physical form, To lend speech and thought to the Ineffable.

The mind is a light which sees only the surface of things or at most a little below the surface. The mind does not record things as they...

Thought builds the universe. Anything may be achieved by thought. Our thought must be clear and ordered. When this is done, we shall se...

The action of our intellect is primarily the function of our understanding, but secondarily critical and finally organizing, controlling ...

All intuitive knowledge comes more of less directly from the light of the self-aware spirit entering into the mind. The intuitive mind is...

Faith is a certitude in the soul which does not depend on reasoning, or this or that mental idea, on circumstance, on this or that passin...

You have only to remain quiet and firm in your following of the path and your will to go on to the end. If you do that circumstances will...

To possess its world is the nature of the infinite spirit and the necessary urge in all being. It is not possible really to possess wha...

To rotate on its own axis is not the one movement for the human soul. There is also its wheeling round the Sun of an inexhaustible illumi...

All imperfection is the first condition of a greater perfection in the manifesting of a hidden divinity. Our imperfection is a sign of a ...

The fall of man from a great height does not prove that he never reached a great height.

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind, that, instead of bubbling on the surf...

By having patience under all kinds of pressure you lay the foundations of peace. To feel the peace above and about your head is a first s...

It is in the peace behind... that you must learn to live and feel it to be yourself. You must regard the rest as not your real self, but ...

The higher consciousness is a concentrated consciousness... not dispersed and rushing about after this or that mental idea or vital desire...

The malady of the world is that the individual cannot find his real soul.

The world will trouble you so long as any part of you belongs to the world. It is only if you belong entirely to the Divine that you can ...

To be an empty vessel is a very good thing if one knows how to make use of the emptiness.

One has continually to leave behind his past selves.

Turn your eyes more to the coming light and less to any immediate darkness.

Our life is a paradox with God for key. Always we bear in us a magic key concealed in life's hermetic envelope. We may find when al...

The key to mastery is always silence at all levels, because in the silence we discern the vibrations and to discern them is to be able to ca...

 Delight is the nature of consciousness, and of the acme of delight love is the key and the secret. Delight is the secret. Learn of pur...

Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine being.

Wrong could not come where all was love and light.

There are two beings in my single self. A Godhead watches Nature from behind At play in front with a brilliant surface elf, A time-born c...

Each man is a field of many forces. All life is the play of universal forces. The individual gives personal form to the universal forces,...

In the evolution of the spiritual man there must necessarily be many stages and in each stage a great variety of individual formations of...

What the spirit sees creates a truth And what the soul imagines is made a world.

Our outward happenings have their seed within. In myself is the seed of all my creation.

The soul gathers the essence of all our mental, vital and bodily experience and assimilates it for farther evolution of our existence in N...

Everybody is an amalgamation  not of two, but of many personalities. Integration means a harmonization of the conflicting parts of the pe...

Our true completeness comes not by describing wider circles on the plane where we began, but by transcendence.

In Nature in the infinite scale of being there are no wide gulfs, no abrupt chasms to be overleaped, but a melting of one thing into anot...

It is only when one looks from above in a consciousness clear of ego that one sees all sides of a thing and also their real worth. The ...

When consciousness is released  from the thousands of mental, vital, physical vibrations in which it is buried, there is joy.

The limits of ego, personal mind and body disappear and one becomes aware of a cosmic vastness. It is not that the ego, the body, the per...

No more shut in by body's walls and gates, Her being a circle without circumference.

All that we internally are is not ego, but consciousness, soul or spirit. All that we externally are and do is not ego but Nature.

A suggestion is not one's own thought or feeling but a thought or feeling that comes from outside, from others, from the general atmos...

All energies put into activity - thought, speech, feeling, act - go to constitute karma. These things help to develop the nature in one di...

The consciousness is often like a vessel which has to be emptied of its mixed or undesirable contents; it has to be kept vacant for a whil...

Spiritual truth is a truth of the spirit, not a truth of the intellect, not a mathematical theorem or a logical formula. It is a truth of...

There is only one truth in you on which you have to lay constant hold, the truth of your divine possibilities and the call of the higher ...

One must learn to speak the truth alone if one is to succeed truly in changing the nature.

 We demand of knowledge that it shall unite. The knowledge that unites is the knowledge. The knowledge that divides must always be a ...

The contact of the human and individual consciousness with the Divine is the very essence of yoga. Yoga is the founding of all life and c...

The Sun is the symbol of the concentrated light of Truth. Sunlight is the light of the Truth itself - whatever power of Truth it may be -...

The best expenditure of energy is that which flows easily without effort at all.

Impossible? There is not such thing as impossibility - there are difficulties and things of longue haleine , but no impossibles. What on...

Things future are already accomplished to knowledge and vision on higher planes of mind.

Thou thinkest the ascetic in his cave or on his mountaintop a stone and a do-nothing? What dost thou know? He may be filling the world wi...

It is even possible to become wholly conscious in sleep from beginning to end or over long stretches of our dream experience; then we are...

Music deepens the emotions and harmonises them with each other. Love is the key-note, Joy is the music, Power is the strain, Knowledge...

Art is nothing less in its fundamental truth than the aspect of beauty of the Divine manifestation. The highest aim of the aesthetic bein...

It is very true that physical things have a consciousness within them - which feels and responds to care and is sensitive to careless touc...

The significance of the lotus is not to be found by analyzing the secrets of the mud from which it grows here; its secret is to be found ...

Nirvana is nothing but the peace and freedom of the Spirit which can exist in itself, be there world or no world, world-order and world-di...

Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being pr...

Reconstitute the perfect word, unite the Alpha and Omega in one sound; then shall the Spirit and Nature be at one.

The Spirit shall look out through Matter's gaze And matter shall reveal the Spirit's face. Then man and superman shall be at one ...