Aspiration explained by The Mother
…aspiration is aspiration: if you have aspiration, in itself it has a power. Only, this aspiration calls down an answer,
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Questions and Answers 1954
Conversations based on the Mother’s essays on education and three small books by Sri Aurobindo: Elements of Yoga, Bases of Yoga and The Mother.
How to strengthen one’s will
Q: Mother, how can one strengthen one’s will? Ans: Oh, as one strengthen muscles, by a methodical exercise. You take
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Total Purity
One is truly perfectly pure only when the whole being, in all its elements and all its movements, adheres fully,
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How to Conquer Fear ?
One of the great remedies for conquering fear is to face boldly what one fears. You are put face to face
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Happiness and sincerity
The moment you feel unhappy, you may write beneath it: “I am not sincere!” These two sentences go together: “I
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“Call me, call me”
“My children, if you are doing something difficult, call me, call me.” No, not in order to come first or gain
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Purity of Thought
Inevitably a thought which expresses the truth is necessarily a thought which is pure, for otherwise it could not express the truth.
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Inert Passivity
Passivity, we said the other day, didn’t we, is what does not move, does not act, vibrate, respond – well, an
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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
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