Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume IV - Part 2

Fragment ID: 14013

It is so with everybody. Human nature is shot through in all its stuff with the threads of the ego. Even when one tries to get away from it, it is in front or walks behind all the thoughts and actions like one’s shadow. To see that is the first step – to discern the falsity and absurdity of the ego movements is the second – to discourage and refuse it at every step is the third – but it goes entirely only when one sees, experiences and lives the One in everything and equally everywhere.