Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume II - Part 1

Fragment ID: 11274

The peace need not be grave or joyless – there should be nothing grey in it – but the gladness or joy or sense of lightness that comes in the peace must be necessarily something internal, self-existent or due to a deepening of experience – it cannot, like the laughter of which you speak, be conveyed by an external cause or dependent upon it, e.g. something amusing, exhilarating etc.