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Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1. 1933-34

Fragment ID: 16425

1934

(Today also the same emptiness continues.) How is one to reconcile these two notions – “You cannot feel emptiness unless you are full, and you cannot experience fullness if you are not void.”

The void is a condition for the fullness coming, in that sense the last part is true. I do not quite understand the other. Perhaps it is true in the sense that what seems emptiness is often a fullness of the peace.