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The Power of Words – Part II

Words are not good and useful unless through a special grace they put you into contact with the Thing, but in themselves they have no value. In fact, the ideal condition – which has already been partially realised by some … Continue reading →

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The Power of Words – Mother

The Power of Words It seems unnecessary to draw your attention to the quantity of useless words that are uttered each day; this evil is well known to all, although very few people think of remedying it. But there are … Continue reading →

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The Human-Like Perception of Plants

The Soul of a Plant The title sounds like a phrase of idealistic or even fanciful poetry fit to precede some reverie or ethereal dream of the imagination; but actually it is no more than the final idea which naturally … Continue reading →

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Travelling the Path XVI. You are sure to arrive – Mother

I know by experience that there isn’t one being who, were it only once in his life, has had a great urge towards… it doesn’t matter how he calls it – let us say the Divine for facility of speech, … Continue reading →

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Life – A lesson from the Divine. Mother

All that comes to each one in life, comes from the Divine to teach us a lesson, and if we take it in the right spirit, we make rapid progress. The Mother (Words of the Mother, Vol. 14 Page: 235)

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Draw back into the stillness within– Sri Aurobindo

(To be constantly governed by the Divine:) A constant aspiration for that is the first thing – next a sort of stillness within and a drawing back from the outward action into the stillness and a sort of listening expectancy, … Continue reading →

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Travelling the Path XI. The Supreme Secret. – Mother

When someone has decided to consecrate his life to the seeking for the Divine, if he is sincere, that is to say, if the resolution is sincere and carried out sincerely, there is absolutely nothing to fear, because all that … Continue reading →

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The justification of earthly existence, seeking in the Divine the human needs. – Mother

25 April 1956 Sweet Mother, the justification of earthly existence… Yes, the justification of earthly existence is that one is on earth to realise the Divine. Without this reason earthly life would be a monstrosity. (Silence) If there were not this … Continue reading →

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Anything that shocks you is the very thing you carry in yourself – The Mother.

It is rather remarkable that when we have a weakness – for example a ridiculous habit, a defect or an imperfection – since it is more or less part of our nature, we consider it to be very natural, it … Continue reading →

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The fundamental perception – Sri Aurobindo.

There is one fundamental perception indispensable towards any integral knowledge or many-sided experience of this Infinite. It is to realise the Divine in its essential self and truth unaltered by forms and phenomena. Otherwise we are likely to remain caught … Continue reading →

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