Sri Aurobindo Quote II

"Thought is not essential to exsitence nor its cause, but it is an instrument for becoming; I become what I see in myself.  All that thought suggests to me, I can do; all that thought reveals in me, I can become. This should be man's unshakable faith in himself, because God dwells in him."

"Pain and grief are Nature's reminder to the soul that the pleausre it enjoys is only a feeble hint of the real delight of existence.  In each pain and torture of our being is the secret of a flame of rapture compared with which our greatest pleasures are only as dim flickerings. It is this secret which forms the attraction for the soul of the great ordeals, sufferings and fierce experiences of life which the nervous mind in us shuns and abhors"

"Those who are poor, ignorant, ill-born or ill-bred are not the common herd; the common herd are all who are satisfied with pettiness and an average humanity."

"The hand of the divine Artist works often as if it were unsure of its genius and its material.  It seems to touch and test and leave, to pick up and throw away and pick up again, to labour and fail and botch and repiece together.  Suprises and disappointments are the order of his work before all things are ready. What was selected, is cast away into the abyss of reprobation; what was rejected, becomes the corner-stone of a mighty edifice. But behind all this is the sure eye of a knowledge which surpasses our reason and the slow smile of an infinite ability."

-The Supramental Manifestation

Integral Aestheticism

What is Integral Aestheticism? The answer cannot be made in a one simple sentence because integral and aesthetics can be regarded as highly symbolic and abstract.  Should art remained as art instead of theorizing it? Is there need for anyone to theorize what art is and can be, what music does to people... what integral art is supposed to aim for? Is there need for artists to write treatise on art? I do think that artists' visions are far different from many others...but artists communicate with their work of arts... should artists also theorize what there art is? theory only confines it... theory  relies on logic. Theory is boxed ... theory equals ism... ideology. an interesting paradox is when integral theory is called integral theory. If the theory denotes the truth, theory must be contradictory to a certain extent.