black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
SRI AUROBINDO

Principle Teaching True
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul’s freedom.
SRI AUROBINDO

Freedom Nature Soul Stand
The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
SRI AUROBINDO

Divine God Human Man
One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.
SRI AUROBINDO

God Love Object Religious
The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
SRI AUROBINDO

Aesthetic Art Divine Door Finding Spirit
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
SRI AUROBINDO

God Imagination Laughter Listening People
The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.
SRI AUROBINDO

Cleaning Experience Past People Rejection Willing
The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself – for this is your true self.
SRI AUROBINDO

Identity Play True Universe
There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine
SRI AUROBINDO

Eyes God Small Yourself
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
SRI AUROBINDO

Order Photograph Stop Yourself
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.
SRI AUROBINDO

Attachment Away Desire Thinking
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
SRI AUROBINDO

Greatness Impossible Journey Possible
The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
SRI AUROBINDO

Force Greatness Stand Strong
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
SRI AUROBINDO

Difficult Willing
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away.
SRI AUROBINDO

Carry Mindset Movement Observation Quiet Separate True
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

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sri Aurobindo Quotes