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"In any case human affection whatever its value has its place, because through it the psychic being gets the emotional experiences it needs until it is ready to prefer the true to the apparent, the perfect to the imperfect, the divine to the human." Sri Aurobindo

"a deep spiritual calm and peace that is the only stable foundation for a lasting Bhakti and Ananda. In that new consciousness there would be a new basis for relations with others; for an ascetic dryness or isolated loneliness cannot be your spiritual destiny [...] Therefore do not be discouraged; wait upon the purifying movement of Shiva."

A selection from Letters of Sri Aurobindo, Vol 2 (CWSA 29) on “Sadhana through Love and Devotion”. Recitation by Nolini Kanta Gupta.

"What is that inner harmony? Union in the Mother." Sri Aurobindo, April 21, 1933

For me faith is not intellectual belief but a function of the soul; when my belief has faltered, failed, gone out, the soul has remained steadfast, obstinately insisting, "This path and no other: the Truth I have felt is the Truth whatever the mind may believe."

"Hardly anyone is strong enough to overcome by his own unaided aspiration and will the forces of the lower nature; even those who do it get only a certain kind of control, but not a complete mastery"

"...Keep your love pure of all selfish claim and desire; you will find that you are getting all the love that you can bear and absorb in answer."

"Look up, O child of the ancient Yoga, and be no longer a trembler and a doubter; fear not, doubt not, grieve not; for in your apparent body is One who can create & destroy worlds with a breath."