It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseen dynamism which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious which is all that this psycho-analysis of Freud seems to know, - and of that it knows only a few ill-lit corners, - is no more than a restricted and very inferior portion of the subliminal whole... to begin by opening up the lower subconscious, risking raising up all that is foul or obscure in it, is to go out of one's way to invite trouble.

— Sri Aurobindo

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

My God is love and sweetly suffers all.

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

She saw to that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

— Sri Aurobindo

Still the invisible Magnet drew his soul

— Sri Aurobindo

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

— Sri Aurobindo

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organized society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

— Sri Aurobindo

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

— Sri Aurobindo

The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:It longed for the adventure of Ignorance

— Sri Aurobindo