calmness

08/03/2019
Sri Aurobindo

Neither rajasic Nor tamasic

Calm, discrimination, detachment (but not indifference) are all very important, for their opposites impede very much the transforming action. Intensity of aspiration should be there, but it must go […]
07/31/2019
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Opening to the new consciousness by Yoga

The consciousness of the mind, life, body in each person is ordinarily shut up in itself; it is narrow, not wide, sees itself as the centre […]
05/31/2019

Calmness

The restlessness and early exhaustion of our active being and its instruments are Nature’s sign that calm is our true foundation and excitement a disease of […]
11/28/2018

A quiet mind

A quiet mind, receiving things and looking at them without effervescence or haste, not rushing about or throwing up random ideas, is what is necessary. Ref: Letters on […]
09/28/2018

Turn to the Force

Do not attach so much importance to mistakes or insist on your non-receptiveness and unconsciousness. You have only to turn always to the Force that gives you calmness […]
12/29/2017
Sri Aurobindo during his early years

Perfection in man

Man, too, becomes perfect only when he has found within himself that absolute calm and passivity of the Brahman and supports by it with the same divine tolerance […]
07/25/2017
Words of Long Ago

Calmness belongs to the strong

Quietude is a very positive state; there is a positive peace which is not the opposite of conflict—an active peace, contagious, powerful, which controls and calms, which puts […]