Silence
…know how to keep silent. And not only keep your tongue quiet, but silence your mind, keep the head silent.
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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
Sensing the Divine Presence
..the movement of fear which is expressed by the eyes fluttering is not a mental or a vital fear: it
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The power of confidence
One thing that is now beginning to be recognised by everyone, even by the medical corps, is that hygienic measures,
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Tackling the recalcitrant parts of our nature
Q: How to persuade the recalcitrant parts of our nature to surrender? A: Try to make them understand, as one
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Controlling one’s temper
If you have a serious difficulty in your character, for example, the habit of losing your temper, and you decide:
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Inside and Outside
Seekers are always told, “If you want to get rid of something, say that it is outside.” This is only
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Removing fatigue
It is not by sinking below oneself that one removes fatigue. One must climb the ladder and there one has
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Impact of reading ordinary books
The subconscient records everything, and if you have the impression that an ordinary book leaves no effect, it means that
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The power of concentration in work
Generally when men are in a hurry, they do not do completely what they have to do or they do
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Different types of love
The essential difference between love in aspiration and love in desire is that love in aspiration gives itself entirely and
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