Isolating oneself
…There is always a way of isolating oneself by an atmosphere of protection, if one knows how to have an extremely quiet
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Questions and Answers 1955
Conversations based on three works by Sri Aurobindo: Bases of Yoga, Lights on Yoga and The Synthesis of Yoga.
Being chosen by God
…it is God who has chosen you, the Divine who has chosen you. And that is why you run after
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Respect for an object
There is a kind of respect for the object one has, which must make one treat it with much consideration
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Power of Concentration
There is a way of reducing the time necessary for doing things by increasing the concentration considerably. Some people can’t
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The dry coconut – an image of the being
It is said that when one has realised, one becomes like the dry coconut which moves in the shell, which
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Genders – the Divide is the problem
Instead of there being two lines, one masculine and one feminine, there should be one single being, and that’s what
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Aspiration
Aspiration is like an arrow,… So you aspire, want very earnestly to understand, know, enter into the truth. Yes? And
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Depression
Not to be depressed – it is extremely important. Depression is a sign of weakness, of a bad will somewhere,
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Self Giving
One must have a great purity and a great intensity in one’s self-giving, and that absolute trust in the supreme
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Living on the surface
Almost totally, everybody lives on the surface, all the time, all the time on the surface. And for them it’s even
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