black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.

Sri Aurobindo

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
SRI AUROBINDO

Acceptance Appearance Knowledge Man Reason
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
SRI AUROBINDO

Delight Force Hard Time Inspirational Key Master Open Pain Strength Suffering
No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.
SRI AUROBINDO

Calm Dangerous Myself Spirit
One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
SRI AUROBINDO

Action Change Course Direction Lonely Oneself
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
SRI AUROBINDO

Courage Development Doubt Experience See
We are sons of God And must be even as he.
SRI AUROBINDO

God Himself Son
The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
SRI AUROBINDO

Force Greatness Stand Strong
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 surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
SRI AUROBINDO

Knowledge Listening Power Surface True
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
SRI AUROBINDO

Appearance Experience Opinion Prejudice Soul
The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.
SRI AUROBINDO

Action Command Expression Intution Talk Way
Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.
SRI AUROBINDO

Beginning Consciousness Life State Yoga
An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.
SRI AUROBINDO

Active Force Mindset Oneself Stop Try
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
SRI AUROBINDO

Heart Man Mindset Ordinary
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
SRI AUROBINDO

Creature Freedom Love Nature World
If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
SRI AUROBINDO

Energy Force Nature Ocean Survive Water Young
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
SRI AUROBINDO

Active Capacity Mindset Silence Time

For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sri Aurobindo Quotes