Indian poet & philosopher (1872-1950)
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
SRI AUROBINDO
Thoughts and Aphorisms
Death fosters life that life may suckle death.
SRI AUROBINDO
Vasavadutta
But few are those who tread the sunlit path;
Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
SRI AUROBINDO
Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse;
We make of our own enemies our guests.
SRI AUROBINDO
Gems from Sri Aurobindo
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
SRI AUROBINDO
Gems from Sri Aurobindo
When mind is still, then Truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
SRI AUROBINDO
Essays Divine and Human
Our lives are God's messengers beneath the stars.
SRI AUROBINDO
Savitri
New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths,
Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts.
SRI AUROBINDO
Savitri
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
SRI AUROBINDO
New Lamps for Old
Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.
SRI AUROBINDO
Gems from Sri Aurobindo
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
SRI AUROBINDO
Thoughts and Glimpses
Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.
SRI AUROBINDO
The Life Divine
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.
SRI AUROBINDO
Sri Aurobindo: The Hour of God and Other Writings
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.
SRI AUROBINDO
Thoughts and Aphorisms
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
SRI AUROBINDO
Sri Aurobindo: The Hour of God and Other Writings
My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
SRI AUROBINDO
Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
India is the guru of the nations, the physician of the human soul in its profounder maladies; she is destined once more to remould the life of the world and restore the peace of the human spirit.
SRI AUROBINDO
Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
SRI AUROBINDO
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.
SRI AUROBINDO
The Renaissance in India