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Living in the Consciousness of the Eternal Provides an Answer to Our Hurried and Dissatisfied Existence · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There is a strong human potential movement, that
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  counsels mindfulness, by living in the present and not worrying
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  about or identifying with the past and not imagining, or
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  creating images about the future, in one's mind.
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  This movement has an underlying truth associated with it, as
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  dwelling on either the past or the future without focus on the
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  present. Can indeed be both unhealthy and
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  Active and IT addresses in a very direct way.
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  The issue of always hurrying forward to achieve, a result to
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  reach a destination rather than participating fully, and with
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  attention in the process, the journey, the day-to-day life one
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  is leading When one is engaged with achieving a specific
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  result, anything that delays the process, any obstacle, setback?
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  Or even a sequential series of steps requires when to fight and
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  rail against whatever is holding up one's result.
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  Of course, when once an individual achieves an objective
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  with this mindset, he generally finds out that somehow the
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  Fulfillment has escaped. And he must move toward another
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  goal or object and thus can never rest Johann, Goethe
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  captured, this Restless attitude, in his famous
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  rendering of Faust who is never satisfied with anything he
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  achieved and it even famously held.
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  If ever to the moment do I say? I Linger on Thou Art.
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  So fair, then he would consider himself doomed, As long as we
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  live in the ego personality and the surface Consciousness, there
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  can be no real solution to this constant drive forward without
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  satisfaction or solution. It is only when we shift the
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  standpoint to the Eternal Consciousness that has nothing
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  to achieve, nothing to prove Nothing to accomplish other than
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  carrying out its systematic manifestation through time and
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  space. That we can be at peace while
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  simultaneously acting with the full power of the Divine, and
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  it's effortless effort. The mother writes quote.
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  We I mean men live harassed lives.
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  It is a kind of half awareness of the shortness of their lives.
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  They do not think of it, but they feel it.
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  Half consciously and so they are always wanting quick quick quick
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  to Rush from one thing to another to do one thing quickly
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  and move on to the next one instead of letting Thing live
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  and its own eternity. They are always wanting forward
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  forward forward and the work is spoiled That is why some people
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  have preached. The only moment that matters is
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  the present moment in practice, it is not true, but from the
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  psychological point of view, it ought to be true.
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  That is to say to live to the utmost of one's capacities at
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  every minute without planning or wanting waiting or preparing.
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  For the next, because you are always hurrying, hurrying,
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  hurrying and nothing. You do is good.
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  You were in a complete state of inner tension, which is
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  completely false, completely false.
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  All those who have tried to be wise, have always said it, the
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  Chinese preached it the Indians preached it to live in the
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  awareness of Eternity in Europe. Also they said that one should
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  contemplate the sky and the stars and identify oneself with
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  their infinitude. All things that widen you and
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  give you peace. These are means but they are
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  indispensable. And I have observed this in the
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  cells of the body. They always seem to be in a
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  hurry to do. What they have to do less, they
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  have no time to do it, so they do nothing properly.
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  Muddled people, some people turn everything upside down, their
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  movements are jerky and Confused.
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  Have this to a high degree. This kind of haste quick, quick,
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  quick, Yesterday someone was complaining of rheumatic pains
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  and he was saying oh it is such a waste of time.
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  I do think so slowly. I said mother Smiles so what he
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  didn't like it you see For someone to complain, when he is
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  in pain, means that he is soft. That's all.
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  But to say, I am wasting so much time.
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  I do think so slowly. It gave a very clear picture of
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  the haste in which men live You go hurtling through life to go.
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  Where? you end with the crash and quote
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  reference SRI aurobindo and the mother living within the yoga
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  approach to psychological health and growth, disturbances of the
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  vital haste and agitation Pages 61 to 63