The Great Sense
Here comes below a crucial text from Satprem that a friend of mine from Auroville (thanks Claude!) gave me while I spend a whole month there. I can’t resist to share this text in which I see so much force. It resonates with the words I share during my conferences on the evolution of our species. The difference? He wrote it in 1969. The Great Sense This is the time of the Great Sense. We look to the right or to the left, we build theories, reform our Churches, invent super-machines and we go out in the streets to break the Machine that stifles us – we struggle in the small sense. When the terrestrial ship is sinking, does it matter whether the passengers drown to the right or left, under a flag black or red, or one of celestial blue? Our Churches have...
Read MoreSri Aurobindo: “The earliest preoccupation of man in his awakened thoughts…”
The earliest preoccupation of man in his awakened thoughts and, as it seems, his inevitable and ultimate preoccupation,—for it survives the longest periods of scepticism and returns after every banishment,—is also the highest which his thought can envisage. It manifests itself in the divination of Godhead, the impulse towards perfection, the search after pure Truth and unmixed Bliss, the sense of a secret immortality. The ancient dawns of human knowledge have left us their witness to this constant aspiration; today we see a humanity satiated but not satisfied by victorious analysis of the externalities of Nature preparing to return to its primeval longings. The earliest formula of Wisdom promises to be its last, — God, Light, Freedom, Immortality. Sri Aurobindo...
Read MoreThoughts on the fly
We get the profile of the enemy that we make for ourselves. Rebellion is a seed, creation is a fruit. Values are priceless. When a conflict occurs, half way toward its resolution is done once the nature of the problem and the nature of its participants have been separated. The middle way, far from comforting rules, can be met only through a dialog with God. Center is everywhere. Action precedes intention. Atheism is the religion of materialism. Your friend is not necessarily a sage, a sage is necessarily your friend. The future is a work of art. He who sees the foreigner in the other is a foreigner to himself. The problem with values is you need to already possess them in order to desire them. Follow the blissipline. The fool is a fool before God, the sage is a...
Read MoreWhen you undertake something…
When you undertake something, know that you will have against you: those who wanted to make the same thing, those who wanted the opposite, and the vast majority of those who wanted to do nothing… – Confucius Share and...
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