Think before speaking
Try this little exercise: at the beginning of the day, say: “I won’t speak without thinking of what I say.”
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Questions and Answers 1950-1951
Conversations based on Sri Aurobindo’s book The Mother, the Mother’s essays on education and her conversations
Attaining Sachchidananda
If one succeeds in making the mind and vital silent, and in keeping the body well asleep, one can have
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Mastering oneself
I have known people who were very scrupulous about not telling lies, but all of a sudden, when together in
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Curing oneself of a defect
If you want to cure yourself of a defect or a difficulty, there is but one method: to be perfectly
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Inner Aspiration
…when you concentrate and have an aspiration, you feel something coming down into you, you receive an answer; you feel
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Power of a Mantra
When you are playing and suddenly become aware that something is going wrong—you are making mistakes, are inattentive, sometimes opposing
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Know Thy Master – Sri Aurobindo’s healing look
I had a very sweet little cat, absolutely civilised, a marvellous cat. It was born in the house and it
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Effort brings Joy
Q: An aim gives a meaning, a purpose to life, and this purpose implies an effort; and it is in effort
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The progress of the psychic being
…the psychic being can progress and form itself only in the physical life and upon earth. As soon as it leaves a
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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
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