Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

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.

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.

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.

The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material.

"Physical education for the body to be effective must be rigorous and detailed, far sighted and methodological. This will be translated into habits. These habits should be controlled and disciplined, while remaining flexible enough to adapt themselves to circumstances and to the needs of growth and development of the being."

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.

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.

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

The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

A nationalist, poet, philosopher and a yogi, Sri Aurobindo founded the Integral Yoga and the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in present day Pondicherry. I will be sharing my series of short spiritual teachings from prominent spiritual masters from the ancient land of India (Bharat).  So read & stash away!

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