black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

Sri Aurobindo

Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
SRI AUROBINDO

Better Character Endurance Example Health Perfection Teaching Value
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.
SRI AUROBINDO

Gain Inspirational Strength Victory Win
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
SRI AUROBINDO

Principle Teaching True
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
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 consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.
SRI AUROBINDO

Consciousness Greatness Knowledge Power Thinking
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
SRI AUROBINDO

Order Photograph Stop Yourself
The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.
SRI AUROBINDO

Fall God Path Spiritual
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
SRI AUROBINDO

Death One Liner Reason Wisdom
Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
SRI AUROBINDO

Achievement Faith Manifestation Realize Soul Worth
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
SRI AUROBINDO

Mindset Progress Seek
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
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

Body Determination Live Nature
The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.
SRI AUROBINDO

Level Mindset Physical Spiritual
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
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

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

Related Topics

Popular Authors

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sri Aurobindo Quotes