Sri Aurobindo (Ghose)

1892-1950, Indian Guru

Art
Art can express eternal truth, it is not limited to the expression of form and appearance … a man using a simple combination of lines, an unpretentious harmony of colors, can raise this apparently insignificant medium to suggest absolute and profound truths with a perfection which language labors with difficulty to reach … The great truths of religion, science, metaphysics, life, development, become concrete, emotional, universally intelligible and convincing in the hands of the master of plastic Art, and the soul of man, in the stage when it is rising from emotion to intellect, looks, receives the suggestion and is uplifted towards a higher development, a diviner knowledge.
Lights on Life-Problems , Kisher Gandhi, ed.

Attention / Awareness
To be fully is to be wholly conscious of one's being: unconsciousness, half consciousness or deficient consciousness is a state of being not in possession of itself; it is existence, but not fullness of being. To be aware wholly or integrally of oneself and of all the truth of one's being is the necessary condition of true possession of existence.
Words of Sri Aurobindo , First Series