restlessness

10/21/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

What helps in growth to the Divine?

You can at least know that anger, jealousy, envy, restlessness, despair, indolence etc. are not divine things and that purity, peace, harmony, zeal, unselfishness etc., are […]
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 […]
11/26/2017

Find The Mother in work and action

You must be able to find the Mother in work and action as well as in concentration and silence. It is quite possible even if there […]
11/25/2017

Reject Restlessness

The effort should be to reject the restlessness and its suggestions altogether. These things come to everybody in the early stages of the sadhana and are […]
09/14/2017
The Mother with Indira Gandhi

Do not dwell on self-defects

The difficulty you find results very much from your always worrying with your mind about things, thinking “This is wrong, that is wrong in me or my work” […]
08/11/2017
Letters on Yoga

Quietitude – Proper basis for work

As for quietude and work, quietude is the proper basis for work — not restlessness. You speak as if quietude and being alive and working were not compatible! […]
06/15/2017

Avoid being restless or impatient

Avoid as much as possible to be restless or impatient because it is in calm and peace that the forces of the Divine Grace work at […]
04/18/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Calm yourself

So, if I tell someone “Be calm”, I may be telling him all kinds of things, it depends upon each person. But obviously, most often it is, “Make […]
02/12/2017
Sri Aurobindo's solitary cell in Alipore Jail

The strength near you

When you feel tired, don’t overstrain yourself but rest – doing only your ordinary work; restlessly doing something or other all the time is not the […]