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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Questions and Answers 1950-1951
Conversations based on Sri Aurobindo’s book The Mother, the Mother’s essays on education and her conversations
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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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
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Being in an attentive state of Observation
To perfect oneself, one must first become conscious of oneself. I am sure, for instance, that the following situation has
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Surrendering unreservedly to The Divine
The only way of being truly free is to make your surrender to the Divine entire, without reservation, because then
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Getting in touch with the psychic being
Each one of you should be able to get into touch with your own psychic being, it is not an
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Rely on the Divine Alone
There is one thing you must learn, never to rely on anyone or anything whatever except the Divine. For if you lean
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Life appropriate to one’s total development
You have been put upon earth, in a physical body, with a definite aim, which is to make this body as
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Accepting everything Understanding later
The notion of what is good for a being and what isn’t is not the same to his evolved consciousness
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