Aurobindo Ghosh

Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent, even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity.

What is vice but an enslaving habit and virtue but a human opinion? See God and do His will; walk in whatever path He shall trace for thy goings.

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

Not result is the purpose of action, but God's eternal delight in becoming, seeing and doing.

There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine.

There are two ways of avoiding the snare of woman; one is to shun all women and the other to love all beings.

Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.

When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly.

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.

O Death, our masked friend and maker of opportunities, when thou wouldst open the gate, hesitate not to tell us beforehand; for we are not of those who are shaken by its iron jarring.

O soldier and hero of God, where for thee is sorrow or shame or suffering? For thy life is a glory, thy deeds a consecration, victory thy apotheosis, defeat thy triumph.

He who would win high spiritual degrees, must pass endless tests and examinations. But most are anxious only to bribe the examiner.

Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.

If thy aim be great and thy means small, still act; for by action alone these can increase to thee.

I have failed, thou sayest. Say rather that God is circling about towards His object.

If thou think defeat is the end of thee, then go not forth to fight, even though thou be the stronger. For Fate is not purchased by any man nor is Power bound over to her possessors. But defeat is not the end, it is only a gate or a …

Suffer yourself to be tempted within so that you may exhaust in the struggle your downward propensities.

Revolutions hew the past to pieces and cast it into a cauldron, but what has emerged is the old Aeson with a new visage.

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

Hate not the oppressor, for, if he is strong, thy hate increases his force of resistance; if he is weak, thy hate was needless.

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.

In God's providence there is no evil, but only good or its preparation.

When thou callest another a fool, as thou must, sometimes, yet do not forget that thou thyself hast been the supreme fool in humanity.

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.