Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Forth Series

Fragment ID: 21725

It is so with everybody. Human nature is shot through in all its stuff with the thread of the ego; even when one tries to get away from it, it is in front or could be behind all the thoughts and actions like a 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 each step is the third,– but it goes entirely only when one sees, experiences and lives the One in everything and equally everywhere.