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Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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In man it is the ego idea which chiefly supports the falsehood of a separative existence.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga - II: The Liberation of the Spirit
Altruism and indifference are often its most effective disguises; so draped, it will riot boldly in the very face of the divine spies who are missioned to hunt it out.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga - I: Renunciation
Its disguises are endless and it will cling to every shred of possible self-concealment.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga - I: Renunciation
Ego is a very curious thing and in nothing more than in its way of hiding itself and pretending it is not the ego.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV: Ego and Its Forms
Pride is only one form of ego—there are ten thousand others.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV: Ego and Its Forms
There should be no big I, not even a small one.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV: Ego and Its Forms
Ego is the reason of the difficulty in everybody.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV: Ego and Its Forms
The ego is in fact driven by the mechanism of Nature of which it is a part and the ego-will is not and cannot be a free will.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga - II: The Divine Shakti
Ego-centrism is our rock of safety against the cosmic and the infinite, our defence.
Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine - I: The Double Soul in Man
Ego is the principal knot.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga - II: The Perfection of the Mental Being
The enemy of all real religion, is human egoism, the egoism of the individual, the egoism of class and nation.
Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle: The Religion of Humanity
Our ego is only a face of the universal being and has no separate existence.
Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine - I: The Divine and the Undivine
The world lives in us, thinks in us, forms itself in us; but we imagine that it is we who live, think, become separately by ourselves and for ourselves.
Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine - I: The Boundaries of the Ignorance
Life to us means only the way she affects our ego and the way our ego replies to her touches.
Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita: The Gist of the Karmayoga
The individual ego is a pragmatic and effective fiction, a translation of the secret self into the terms of surface consciousness
Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine - I: The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil
Man ordinarily offers his sacrifice openly or under a disguise to his own ego.
Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita: The Fullness of Spiritual Action
The ego is the lynch-pin invented to hold together the motion of our wheel of nature.
Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine - I: The Boundaries of the Ignorance
Ego is the most formidable of the knots which keep us tied to the Ignorance.
Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine - I: The Boundaries of the Ignorance
Study is of importance only if you study in the right way and with the turn for knowledge and mental discipline.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV: The Place of Study in Sadhana
All that we internally are is not ego, but consciousness, soul or spirit.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga - I: The Supreme Will
Our I is not that spiritual being which can look on the Divine Existence and say, “That am I”.
Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine - II: The Progress to Knowledge - God, Man and Nature
The shadow has to disappear and by its disappearance reveal the spirit’s unclouded substance.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga - I: The Release from the Ego
The ego-sense is not indispensable to the world-play in which it is so active and so falsifies the truth of things.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga - I: The Release from the Ego
Experience shows that, in proportion as we deliver ourselves from the limiting mental and vital ego, we command a wider life, a larger existence.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga - I: The Release from the Ego