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This is how God in His love teaches the child soul & the weakling, taking them step by step and withholding the vision of His ultimate & yet unattainable mountaintops. And have we not all some weakness? Are we not all in His sight but as little children? Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms 469) |
Play, Laugh, EnjoyPerhaps there is more divinity in the spontaneous play of children than in the erudition of the scholar or the asceticism of the saint. That’s what I have always thought. Only (smiling) it is a divinity which is quite unconscious of itself. As for me, I must confess to you that I feel much more essentially myself when I am joyful and when I play – in my own way – than when I am very grave and very serious – much more. Grave and serious – that always gives me the impression that I am dragging the weight of all this creation, so heavy and so obscure, whereas when I play — when I play, when I can laugh, can enjoy myself – it gives me the feeling of a fine powder of delight falling from above and tinting this creation, this world with a very special colour and bringing it much closer to what it should essentially be. The Mother The Great Adventure – A Diary for All Times. Page 313. |
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