"When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence."

— Sri Aurobindo

"But defeat is not the end, it is only a gate or a beginning."

— Sri Aurobindo

"Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators."

— Sri Aurobindo

"Very usually, altruism is only the sublimest form of selfishness"

— Sri Aurobindo

"Only the soul that is naked and unashamed can be pure and innocent."

— Sri Aurobindo

"To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs."

— Sri Aurobindo

"A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe."

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

"None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell."

— Sri Aurobindo

"Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings."

— Sri Aurobindo

"True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become."

— Sri Aurobindo

"My God is love and sweetly suffers all."

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

"By your stumbling, the world is perfected."

— Sri Aurobindo

"Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future."

— Sri Aurobindo

"What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion."

— Sri Aurobindo

"My love is not a hunger of the heart, My love is not a craving of the flesh; It came to me from God, to God returns."

— Sri Aurobindo

"All problems of existence are essentially problems of Harmony."

— Sri Aurobindo

"Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in the mortal's heart."

— Sri Aurobindo

"By our stumbling the world is perfected"

— Sri Aurobindo