Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume IV - Part 4
Fragment ID: 15560
It sometimes happens that by a carefully formed formation like this and through the instrumentality of a third person whose movements they control, the hostile forces get through the conscious guard and bring about an accident like this1. It is through 
the subconscient that they manage to do it, for the subconscient has not yet either the mass of force descended from above which could have repelled the arriving cycle and turned its movement away or the instinctive sureness which would have felt beforehand what the cyclist was going to do and done just the thing to avoid it. However when the protection is there such accidents even when grave in character are usually reduced to something minor in their results.
1 The correspondent was cycling down the road when an approaching cyclist collided with him; he fell to the ground and injured his legs. – Ed.