The Mother

05/24/2018

Purpose of failures

Repeated failures come always to those who have something exceptional to do; it is only those who are satisfied with a common place and ordinary realisation […]
05/23/2018

Awaken and Act

NOW, Lord, things have changed. The time of rest and preparation is over. Thou hast willed that from the passive and contemplative servitor I was, I […]
05/22/2018

Multiplicity and Divergence

In fact, this multiplicity and divergence are the cause of most disorders and even illnesses. Something is going well, you have caught the guiding thread, you […]
05/21/2018

Healing comes from the heart

Healing comes not from the head but from the heart. To understand is good, but to will is better. Self-love is the great obstacle. Divine love […]
05/18/2018

Anxiety only serves to strengthen the difficulty

It is much more difficult to stand back from the difficulty, to look at it as something which does not concern you, which does not interest […]
05/16/2018

Cruelty

Cruelty was one of the things that was most repugnant to Sri Aurobindo, but he always said that it was the distortion of an intensity, one could […]
05/14/2018

Living on the surface

Almost totally, everybody lives on the surface, all the time, all the time on the surface. And for them it’s even the only thing which exists—the surface. And […]
05/10/2018

Behaving in a reasonable manner

A physical disorder brings suffering, at times much suffering, but there are people who are in such a state of consciousness that their physical sufferings do […]
05/09/2018
Sri Aurobindo

Quietness

Surely to be quiet is not tamas. In fact it is only in quietness that the proper thing can be done. What I call quietness is […]