Sri Aurobindo

"Earth must transform herself and equal Heaven
Or Heaven descend into earth's mortal state.
But for such a vast spiritual change to be,
Out of the mystic cavern in man's heart
The heavenly Psyche must put off her veil
And step into common nature's crowded rooms
And stand uncovered in that nature's front
And rule its thoughts and fill body and life."

Savitri, Book VII, Canto II

"Yoga is nothing but practical psychology"

"All life is yoga"

"When the psychic being comes in front, there is an automatic perception of the true and untrue, the divine and the undivine, the spiritual right and wrong of things, and the false vital and mental movements and attacks are immediately exposed and fall away and can do nothing; gradually the vital and physical as well as the mind get full of this psychic light and truth and sound feeling and purity, and such violent attacks as you have are impossible."

Sri Aurobindo, SABCL vol.24 pp. 1107-1108

The London Times Literary Supplement on Sri Aurobindo

"Of all modern writers Aurobindo---successively poet, critic, scholar, thinker, nationalist, humanist---is the most significant and perhaps the most interesting. Yet few have heard of him in England or America. This is a pity, for he should make a special appeal to the intelligent Anglo-Saxon. He is not an arm-chair philosopher, but a man who, having led a life of intense activity, has retired to brood over it, if one may say so of a Hindu, in the dim light of a Gothic cathedral. In fact, he is a new type of thinker, one who combines in his vision the alacrity of the
West with the illumination of the East.

To study his writings is to enlarge the boundaries of one's knowledge. ".....He gave up everything, and withdrew to Pondicherry---to follow the new light that had been vouchsafed to him. What was this light? To be of active help to the new world which, in his opinion, was struggling to be born. To achieve this aim he had, first, to make of his body, mind and spirit a delicate and precise instrument, and then to learn to draw from this instrument the maximum of its possibilities. Aurobindo cannot be dismissed as one who happens to have written a few fine books.
He.......writes as though he were standing among the stars, with the constellations for his companions.

"That he is a great idealist goes without saying; but he is not an idealist in the Shankaran or Berkeleian manner. He has achieved a reconciliation between matter and spirit. They are, in his opinion, one and indivisible. It is not necessary, he says, to prove the existence of God. He is: in Him we live and move and have our being. The world is his manifestation, and so is as real as God. If it is a dream, it is a dream in reality and made of the same stuff as this reality. If the god is real, Aurobindo tells us, the vessel of gold is as real and can never be a figment of the brain.

"Aurobindo is no visionary. He has always acted his dream. 'Truth of philosophy' he has said, 'is of a merely theoretical value unless it can be lived'.....an internationalist, not in a dreamy nor yet in a
conventional manner, but by inner compulsion----the compulsion of thought leading to an inevitable conclusion. Long before others he spoke of 'one world.' His final word is that we are, whether we like it or not, 'members one of another.' Unless we realize this truth, and act upon it, we shall never have peace and goodwill on earth."