On Thoughts and Aphorisms

11/01/2022
Sri Aurobindo

Aspire intensely without impatience

Aspire intensely, but without impatience…. The difference between intensity and impatience is very subtle—it is all a difference in vibration. It is subtle, but it makes […]
10/31/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Freedom

Anything that suppresses, diminishes or lessens cannot bring freedom. Freedom has to be experienced in the whole of life and in all sensations. Ref: On Thoughts […]
10/29/2022
The Mother

Remain Quiet

There is only one answer, one single answer: one must be quiet, quiet, and even more quiet, more and more quiet, and not trying to find […]
05/14/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Escaping from Mental Prison

We cannot counteract the harm done by mental faith in the need for drugs by any external measures. Only by escaping from the mental prison and […]
12/22/2020

Planes of the Mind

There are many planes or zones of the mind, from the plane of the physical mind, the lower zone of ordinary thoughts, full of error and […]
10/31/2020
The Mother with Tara Jauhar

Real repentance

The truth is that when you ask forgiveness you hope that the dire consequences of what you have done will be wiped away. But that is […]
10/28/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Smile at everything

Look upon everything with a benevolent smile. Take all the things which irritate you as a lesson for yourself and your life will be more peaceful […]
06/04/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Right Attitude

What is the best attitude? Is it an attitude of intervention or an attitude of non-interference? Which is better?   Ah, that’s just it, to intervene […]
05/09/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

When something seems completely unacceptable or ridiculous

When something in a person seems to you completely unacceptable or ridiculous – “What! He is like that, he behaves like that, he says things like […]