May 4, 2011 – The Need for the Grace

The idealist errs;
it is not Mind which created the worlds,
but that which created mind has created them.
Mind only mis-sees,
because it sees partially
&
by details, what is created.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 156)

The Need for the Grace

Most people, as soon as the difficulty has gone, say, “After all, I pulled myself out of the difficulty quite well.”

There you are. And then you lock and bolt the door, you see, and you cannot receive anything any more. You need once again some acute anguish, some terrible difficulty for this kind of inner stupidity to give way, and for you to realise once more that you can do nothing. Because it is only when you grow aware that you are powerless that you begin to be just a little open and plastic. But so long as you think that what you do depends on your own skill and your own capacity, truly, not only do you close one door, but, you know, you close lots of doors one upon another, and bolt them. You shut yourself up in a fortress and nothing can enter there. That is the great drawback: one forgets very quickly. Quite naturally one is satisfied with one’s own capacity

The Mother

The Great Adventure: page 227