Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume I - Part 2

Fragment ID: 10196

These things [self-esteem, depression, etc.] usually hide in recesses of the vital or the physical in which there is not yet the full force of the Peace and Light. When they are quite driven out from there, they may lodge in the subconscient and send up suggestions from there. Thrown out altogether they remain in the environmental consciousness and try to act from there, but then they are no longer part of one’s own consciousness and are not felt as such but as something trying to come in from outside.