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Lack of Confidence

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The Mother with Tara Didi
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09/18/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Never allow mind to judge
09/20/2020
Published by The Mother on 09/19/2020
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The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

I think in fact that our defects very often appear to us to be full of charm and that we justify all our weaknesses. But to tell the truth, this is because we lack self-confidence. Does this surprise you?… Yes, I repeat, we lack confidence, not in what we are at the present moment, not in our ephemeral and ever-changing outer being—this being always finds favour in our eyes—but we lack confidence in what we can become through effort, we have no faith in the integral and profound transformation which will be the work of our true self, of the eternal, the divine who is in all beings, if we surrender like children to its supremely luminous and far-seeing guidance.

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