Developing one’s thoughtDeveloping one’s thoughtDeveloping one’s thoughtDeveloping one’s thought
  • Inspirations from Sri Aurobindo
    • Bande Mataram
    • Essays Divine and Human
    • Essays on the Gita
    • Karmayogin
    • Letters on Yoga – I
    • Letters on Yoga – II
    • Letters on Yoga – III
    • Letters on Yoga – IV
    • Savitri
    • The Mother with Letters on The Mother
  • Inspirations from The Mother
    • Prayers and MeditationsA record of the Mother’s early spiritual life, from her diaries. Most entries are from 1912 to 1917
    • Questions and Answers 1929-1931Early conversations on various aspects of spiritual life; and commentaries on the Dhammapada
    • Questions and Answers 1953Conversations based on the Mother’s conversations of 1929.
    • Questions and Answers 1950-1951Conversations based on Sri Aurobindo’s book The Mother, the Mother’s essays on education and her conversations
    • Questions and Answers 1954Conversations based on the Mother’s essays on education and three small books by Sri Aurobindo: Elements of Yoga, Bases of Yoga and The Mother.
    • Questions and Answers 1955Conversations based on three works by Sri Aurobindo: Bases of Yoga, Lights on Yoga and The Synthesis of Yoga.
    • Questions and Answers 1957-1958Conversations based on three works by Sri Aurobindo: Thoughts and Glimpses, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth and The Life Divine.
    • Some Answers from The MotherCorrespondence with fourteen sadhaks and students
    • Words of The Mother Vol. IShort written statements on Sri Aurobindo, herself, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Auroville, India and nations other than India; and a few conversations.
    • Words of The Mother Vol. IIIShort written statements on various aspects of spiritual life; and thirty conversations.
    • White Roses

Developing one’s thought

  • Home
  • Some Answers from The Mother
  • Developing one’s thought
Sri Aurobindo Ashram's The Mother Charan
An inexpressible Joy
05/30/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram with Dyuman
Distancing from The Mother
06/01/2023
Published by The Mother on 05/31/2023
Categories
  • Some Answers from The Mother
Tags
  • attention
  • concentration
  • thought
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Sweet Mother,

You have said that I do not think well. How can one develop one’s thought?

You must read with much attention and concentration, not novels or dramas, but books that make you think. You must meditate on what you have read, reflect on a thought until you have understood it. Talk little, remain quiet and concentrated, and speak only when it is indispensable.

Ref : Some Answers from The Mother

 

Share
1

Related posts

Sri Aurobindo
05/06/2025

To live for the Divine


Read more
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram
04/23/2025

Supreme Faculties


Read more
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram with Dyuman
04/14/2025

Renunciation of Good Habits


Read more
An offering at the lotus feet of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother by In Search of The Mother