thoughts

06/21/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Secret to Rejecting Thoughts and Influences

All these thoughts and influences come really from outside, from universal Nature—they create formations in us or get habitual responses from the individual being. When they […]
11/30/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Developing one’s thought

Sweet Mother, You have said that I do not think well. How can one develop one’s thought? You must read with great attention and concentration, not […]
01/08/2022

Thoughts

Q: Do any thoughts or suggestions come to you?  How do you mean? Thoughts and suggestions come to me from every side and I don’t refuse […]
12/20/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Absentmindedness and emotions

Q: If one shuts out emotions, doesn’t one become absent-minded? Absentmindedness has nothing to do with emotions, it has to do with mind, memory and thoughts. […]
08/20/2021

On handling thoughts and sensations

Q: I succeed for a few minutes in keeping myself attentive, empty of thought — but then the sensations return with a new strength. I do […]
08/10/2021

On thoughts and actions

Q: How to distinguish the thoughts and actions of the mind, vital and physical? Are not the vital’s thoughts and actions derived from desire or ego? […]
08/03/2021

On Thoughts and how to handle them

Q: Is it true that no one has his own thoughts? Either they come from the lower nature — from people — or from the higher […]
08/02/2021
Sri Aurobindo

The nature of thoughts, desires and impulses

Q: May I know the nature of thoughts, desires and impulses? How and why do they come into men? This is a thing one feels: one […]
09/29/2020

Detachment from the mind

The mind can become quiet only when you detach yourself from it and see the thoughts as things that pass. Then you don’t think yourself but […]