Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume IV - Part 4
Fragment ID: 15413
To be miserable may remind you of the defects of your external nature, but I do not see how it is going to cure them. I am not asking you to be frivolously happy, but to be quiet and quietly confident, rejecting these old movements, but for the rest trusting not in a restless self-torturing personal effort but to the Divine Force to change the external nature.