October 31, 2012 – Win Your Little Victories

If Life alone were and not death,
there could be no immortality;
if love were alone and not cruelty,
joy would be only a tepid and ephemeral rapture;
if reason were alone and not ignorance,
our highest attainment would not exceed a limited rationality and worldly wisdom.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 90)

Win Your Little Victories

If through an effort of inner consciousness and knowledge, you can truly overcome in yourself a desire, that is to say, dissolve and abolish it, and if through inner goodwill, through consciousness, light, knowledge, you are able to dissolve the desire, you will be, first of all in yourself personally, a hundred times happier than if you had satisfied this desire, and then it will have a marvellous effect. It will have a repercussion in the world of which you have no idea. It will spread forth. For the vibrations you have created will continue to spread. These things grow larger like the snowball. The victory you win in your character, however small it be, is one which can be gained in the whole world….

If you really want to do something good, the best thing you can do is to win your small victories in all sincerity, one after another, and thus you will do for the world the maximum you are able to.

The Mother

The Great Adventure 19