Man twitters intellectually (=foolishly) about the surface results and attributes them all to his “noble self”, ignoring the fact that his noble self is hidden far away from his own vision behind the veil of his dimly sparkling intellect and the reeking fog of his vital feelings, emotions, impulses, sensations and impressions.
[Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo, I, 460
You must know the whole before you can know the part and the highest before you can truly understand the lowest. That is the promise of the greater psychology awaiting its hour before which these poor gropings will disappear and come to nothing.
[Letters on Yoga,24: 1608-09]
The impatience of things going wrong is the defect of a quality –an insistence on accuracy and order. The thing is to keep the quality and get rid of the defect.
There can be no physical life without an order and rhythm. When this order is changed, it must be in obedience to an inner growth and not for the sake of external novelty. It is only a certain part of the surface lower vital nature, which seeks always external change and novelty for its own sake.
It is by constant inner growth that one can find a constant newness and unfailing interest in life. There is no other satisfying way.
[Letters on Yoga, p-715]
