Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

SABCL 26

Fragment ID: 7883

Poetry seems to have intervals in its visits to you very often. I rather think the malady is fairly common. X and Y who can write whenever they feel inclined are rare birds. I don’t know about “the direction of consciousness”. My own method is not to quiet the mind, for it is eternally quiet, but to turn upward and inward. You, I suppose, would have to quiet it first, which is not always easy. Have you tried it?

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