black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
SRI AUROBINDO

Perfection World Yourself
Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.
SRI AUROBINDO

Art Himself Nature Transcendence
The supreme state of human love is the unity of one soul in two bodies.
SRI AUROBINDO

Body Human Love Soul State
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
SRI AUROBINDO

Beyond God Life Spirit
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
SRI AUROBINDO

Choice Deep Wisdom
A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.
SRI AUROBINDO

Ego God Greatness Stand Vision Way
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
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
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
SRI AUROBINDO

Manifestation Material World
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
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.
SRI AUROBINDO

Point Satisfaction Success Thinking Truth
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.
SRI AUROBINDO

Existence Harmony Problem
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
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
SRI AUROBINDO

Fate Greatness Man Soul
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
SRI AUROBINDO

Effort Game God Perfection Resistance Sin Virtue
The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.
SRI AUROBINDO

Fly Freedom Honey Sweet Touch Wings

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sri Aurobindo Quotes