Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume IV - Part 3

Fragment ID: 14571

Yes; that [the idea that things cannot change] also is the fault of the physical consciousness. It is obsessed by the idea that “what is” must be,– that the habit of things cannot be altered. This inevitability it extends not only to what is but to what it merely thinks of as a fact – it lays itself open inertly to every suggestion or possibility that seems to be justified by the habit of things. It is the main obstacle to the material change.