May 29, 2013 – Learn How To Will

Imperfect capacity & effect in the work that is meant for thee is better than an artificial competency & a borrowed perfection.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 329)

Learn How To Will

To learn how to will is a very important thing. And to will truly, you must unify your being. In fact, to be a being, one must first unify oneself. If one is pulled by absolutely opposite tendencies, if one spends three – fourths of his life without being conscious of himself and the reasons why he does things, is one a real being? One does not exist. One is a mass of influences, movements, forces, actions, reactions, but one is not a being. One begins to become a being when he begins to have a will. And one can’t have a will unless he is unified.

And when you have a will, you will be able to say, say to the Divine: “I want what You want.” But not before that. Because in order to want what the Divine wants, you must have a will, otherwise you can will nothing at all. You would like to. You would like it very much. You would very much like to want what the Divine wants to do. You don’t possess a will to give to Him and put at His service.

The Mother

The Great Adventure – A Diary for All Times. Page 87.