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Give to receive

…the best way of receiving anything whatever is not to pull, but to give. If they want to give themselves to

…you simply have an aspiration within you, an urge, an intense ardent need to find That, which you conceive more or less

When one wants to detach oneself from something, from a certain movement or activity or state of consciousness, this is

Q: How can we find the Divine within ourselves? A: ..First of all, you must begin to seek Him, and

Sri Aurobindo says that all that one thinks one is, one can, by the very fact of that thinking, become.

…Delight without detachment would be a very dangerous gift which could very easily be perverted. So, to seek Delight before

…it is said that the mind can know nothing: it can know nothing because it needs explanations. An explanation is

Q: Sweet Mother, what does Sri Aurobindo mean by “a self-dynamising meditation”? A: It is a meditation that has the

…sincerity is an infinitely more powerful force than all the wills in the world. It can change anything whatever in

Quietude is a very positive state; there is a positive peace which is not the opposite of conflict—an active peace, contagious, powerful,