WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust
Harmony and Goodwill
Harmony
Harmony: let us strive that the day may come when this will be the means and the end.
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Harmony is my aim and all that leads to harmony makes me happy.
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Integral harmony: harmony between things, harmony between people, harmony of circumstances and above all harmony of all aspiration directed towards the Supreme Truth.
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A harmonious collective aspiration can change the course of circumstances.
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Collective harmony is the work undertaken by the Divine Consciousness; It alone has the power to realise it.
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There is a deep and true consciousness in which all can meet in love and harmony.
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It is only in union with the Divine and in the Divine that harmony and peace can be established.
20 July 1935
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Surely we must always want peace and harmony and work for it as much as we can--but for that the best field of action is always within ourselves.
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Look for the inner causes of disharmony much more than the outer ones. It is the inside which governs the outside.
4 July 1966
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Do not worry or be impatient--all the disharmonies will disappear, but it must be on the true basis of a settled luminous consciousness leaving no room for the play of the ego.
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For all to agree, each one must rise to the summit of his consciousness: it is on the heights that harmony is created.
April 1970
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You must rise so high in your consciousness that it dominates the opposition. This is the solution.
4 March 1971
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Collaboration
Collaboration: ever ready to help and knowing how to do it.
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Collaboration does not mean that everybody should do the will of the man who asks for it. True collaboration is a non-egoistic union of all personal efforts to express and realise the Divine's Will.
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We must replace competition and strife by collaboration and fraternity.
2 July 1954
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Substitute the spirit of rivalry and competition by the goodwill of collaboration and mutual understanding.
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It is when things are going wrong that it is the best opportunity to show one's goodwill and spirit of true collaboration.
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Goodwill
Indeed, the good will hidden in all things reveals itself everywhere to the one who carries good will in his consciousness.
This is a constructive way of feeling which leads straight to the Future.
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One should keep goodwill and love constantly in his heart and let them pour out upon all with tranquillity and with equanimity.
16 December 1966
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Good will for all and good will from all is the basis of peace and harmony.
14 August 1969
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Goodwill: of modest appearance, it makes no noise but is ever ready to be useful.
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Mental goodwill likes to show off a little, but is very useful.
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Benevolence
Benevolence makes life fragrant without attracting attention.
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A tireless benevolence, clear-seeing and comprehensive, free from all personal reaction, is the best way to love God and serve Him upon earth.
I mean a benevolence sincere and spontaneous in thought and speech and not a supposed benevolence in acts which is accompanied most often by a dreadful sense of condescending superiority serving chiefly as a platform for human vanity.
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Tolerance
Tolerance is full of a sense of superiority; it should be replaced by a total understanding.
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Tolerance is only the first step towards wisdom.
The need to tolerate indicates the presence of preferences.
He who lives in the Divine Consciousness regards all things with a perfect equanimity.
9 August 1969