How can we “express that One Divine”?
It depends on the subject one wants to express: gods, men or things.
When one paints a picture
By the Divine Consciousness we mean the spiritual consciousness to which the Divine alone exists, because all is the Divine and by which one passes
Many people accept certain theories, some of which are very convenient, and they say, “Everything is the result of the divine Will”; others say, “The
Almost all of them. There are very few things which are not insignificant; all your ordinary reactions, ordinary thoughts, sensations, actions, movements,—all this is very
Religion is always imperfect because it is a mixture of man’s spirituality with the errors that come in trying to sublimate ignorantly his lower nature.
I would not describe the perfections you describe in your letter, fine though they are, as spiritual in the proper sense of the word—for they
It is to bring back all the scattered threads of consciousness to a single point, a single idea. Those who can attain perfect attention succeed
One is more or less conscious of the energy one spends, especially when one wastes it too much! It is a question here of the
It is a world which has emerged from the Inconscient and these things [poverty and misery] are results of the imperfect working of the human
Selfishness and the reaction of unselfishness of which you speak are both of them things that have to be put aside—both are obstacles or movements
The number of hours spent in meditation is no proof of spiritual progress. It is a proof of your progress when you no longer have
It is a thing that does not happen to all. It happens to those that are called. Whatever difference there is between the West and
Vice and virtue have nothing to do with darkness or light, truth and falsehood. The spiritual man rises above vice and virtue, he does not
As for the other question, there is no reason to suppose that there is not life in any part of the material cosmic system except
The supramental does not take interest in mental things in the same way as the mind. It takes its own interest in all the movements
When their presence in the world is no more of any use, they will disappear. Their action is used as a testing process, so that
Straightforwardness means simply to be honest with oneself and with the Divine and not to be crooked in one’s ways. Self-justification is unwillingness to recognise
Maybe. But a distinction must be made between a method of development or discipline and a willed action. Discipline is different; I am speaking of