The Mother

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 […]
05/07/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Why seek to know – Just consecrate

I see more and more that all impatient revolt, all haste would be useless; everything is slowly organised so that I may serve Thee as I […]
05/03/2018

A healthy humility

If you impose a discipline upon yourself and if it isn’t too stupid, it may help you. A discipline, I tell you—disciplines, tapasyas, all ascetic disciplines are, as […]
05/02/2018

Being unselfish

The unselfish movement, uncalculating, is one of the most beautiful forms of psychic consciousness in the world. But the higher one rises in the scale of mental activity, […]
04/28/2018

Escaping the law of horoscopes

Experience proves that this notation which is called in astrology a horoscope is not something absolute and that this destiny is not inevitable, for by taking up yoga […]