Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo to Dilip
Volume 3
(...) When the dark mood comes or overshadows, one begins to feel like that, sometimes that there never was any experience or contact, sometimes that things are getting always worse. When the good condition is there, you feel – you have often written it, surges of Bhakti, experiences that give closeness, a sense of progress, you are grateful for the energies flowing into you and do not think it would be just 
the same elsewhere. There is no increasing distance from the Divine – in fact during the fairly long spell of the better condition you have had, the distance was decreasing, as it always does when there is the better consciousness – for the distance is created by the consciousness alone. It is a pity you are allowing the dark spell to come back – I mean, by giving hospitality to its suggestions, especially those two great weapons of the Adversary – despondency and doubt. Prayer may not bring always an immediate response, though I believe in the end it does, if the whole being is behind it – but all experience shows the effectivity of two things, a central, if possible a complete faith and the mind’s and heart’s surrender.