Questions and Answers 1955

12/17/2018

Depression

Not to be depressed – it is extremely important. Depression is a sign of weakness, of a bad will somewhere, and bad will in the sense […]
06/17/2018
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Self Giving

One must have a great purity and a great intensity in one’s self-giving, and that absolute trust in the supreme wisdom of the divine Grace, that […]
05/14/2018

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 the only thing which exists—the surface. And […]
02/26/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Communing with the universal forces

When one is in the countryside, when one walks under the trees and feels so close to Nature, to the trees, the sky, all the leaves, all the […]
02/18/2018

The sleeping possibilities within us

…we have a number of possibilities which we let sleep within us, because we don’t take the trouble to develop them very much.We can do infinitely […]
10/11/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Dealing with difficult children

…if you repeat to a child, if you make him repeat, “I am good, day by day more and more.” “I am better and better, I […]
07/10/2017
Questions and Answers 1955 by The Mother

Face yourself courageously

  Every time you are afraid to face yourself and hide carefully from yourself what prevents you from advancing, well, it is as though you were building a […]
04/16/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The purpose of wealth

Wealth is a force… …a force of Nature; and it should be a means of circulation, a power in movement, as flowing water is a power in […]
01/22/2017

Remaining in the higher consciousness

The safest way is precisely not to go down, it is to remain above and from there to put a pressure on what is below. But if you […]