Growing Within

Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development

It is by a constant inner growth that one can find a constant newness and unfailing interest in life. There is no other satisfying way.

SRI AUROBINDO
Letters on Yoga - II: Practical Concerns in Work

To become ourselves is the one thing to be done; but the true ourselves is that which is within us, and to exceed our outer self of body, life and mind is the condition for this highest being, which is our true and divine being, to become self-revealed and active. It is only by growing within and living within that we can find it....

SRI AUROBINDO
The Life Divine - II: The Divine Life

Everything turns around the consciousness, the fact of being or not being conscious. And it is only in the supreme Consciousness that you can attain the perfect expression of yourself.

THE MOTHER
Questions and Answers (1956): 29 February 1956

For the true consciousness is the divine Consciousness. If you cut yourself off from the divine Consciousness, you become absolutely unconscious; that is exactly what has happened. And so, everything there is, the world as it is, your consciousness as it is, things in the state they are in, are the result of this separation of the consciousness and its immediate obscuration.

The minute the individual consciousness is separated from the divine Consciousness, it enters what we call the inconscience, and it is this inconscience that is the cause of all its miseries.

THE MOTHER
Questions and Answers (1956): 29 February 1956

• And the conclusion is this, that the true transformation is the transformation of consciousness – all the rest will follow automatically.

THE MOTHER
Questions and Answers (1956): 29 February 1956