The Substance of the mental being is still, so still,
daß nothing disturbs it. If thoughts or activities come
they do not rise at all out of the mind, but they come
from outside and cross the mind as a flight of birds
crosses the sky in a windless air. It passes, disturbs
nothing, leaving no trace. Even if a thousand images
or the most violent events pass across it, the calm
stillness remains as if the very texture of the mind
were a substance of eternal and indestructible peace.
A mind that has achieved this calmness can begin to
act, even intensely and powerfully, but it will keep its
fundamental stillness – originating nothing from
itself but receiving from Above and giving it a mental
form without adding anything of its own, calmly,
dispassionately, though with the Joy of Truth and
the happy power and light of its passage.
Sri Aurobindo…..
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