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Developing and Integrating Calm and Peace in the Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  If we remain constantly an active motion and react to all
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  the sent Impressions and pressures.
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  That impinge upon us from the outer world, it is difficult to
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  achieve a status of calm or peace.
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  One of the values of sitting regularly for a time of quiet
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  reflection meditation or concentration is just the
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  ability to step back away from the hustle and bustle.
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  Love our daily lives and cultivate an atmosphere of
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  Serenity around us. Once this atmosphere is well
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  established, it can automatically Aid us as we take
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  up the daily life and meet our daily challenges and
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  provocations. SRI aurobindo, writes, quote one
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  can go forward. Even if there is not peace
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  quietude and concentration are necessary.
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  Peace is necessary for the higher states to develop.
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  It is quite natural that it first.
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  There should be the condition of calm and peace.
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  Only, when you sit for concentration, what is important
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  is that there should be this condition whenever you sit and
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  the pressure for it always there.
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  But at other times the result is at first only a certain mental
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  quiet and freedom from thoughts. Afterwards, when the condition
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  of peace is quite settled in the inner being for it is the inner
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  into which you enter whenever you concentrate, then it begins
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  to come out and control the outer so that the calm and peace
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  remain. Even when working mixing with
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  others talking or other occupations, For then, whatever
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  the outer Consciousness is doing one.
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  Feels the inner being calm within indeed.
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  When feels the inner being as one's real self, while the outer
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  is something superficial through which the inner axon life, and
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  quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother growing within
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  the psychology of inner development, chapter for growth
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  of Consciousness, first steps and Foundation page 75.