The Creative Process Blog

If you want a friendlier world, make friends. (that’s as smart as I get!)
What could be more obvious; and yet, more difficult.

Social law external to the individual is an advantage; and yet, can be a considerable disadvantage. It is an advantage when self-control and self-finding are weak, when demands of ‘personal egoism’ need to be moderated; and also, when violent ‘collective egoism’ is rampant and menacing.

It is a disadvantage, however, when mature people are ready to transcend ‘egoism’, becoming one-within-the-One. Internal relating is direct, immediate rather than mediated through ‘constructive thought’.

AUROBINDO QUOTE:
An external unity with others must always be an outward joining and association of external lives with a minor inner result; the mind and heart attach their movements to this common life and the beings whom we meet there; but the common external life remains the foundation, - the inward constructed unity, or so much of it as can persist in spite of mutual ignorance and discordant egoisms, conflict of minds, conflict of hearts, conflict of vital temperaments, conflict of interests, is a partial and insecure superstructure.

Beyond ‘constructive thought’ is to commit to the Divine within oneself and within others in radical oneness (your neighbor ‘as’ yourself).

AUROBINDO QUOTE (continued)
The spiritual consciousness, the spiritual life reverses this principle of building; it bases its action in the collective life upon an inner experience and inclusion of others in our own being, an inner sense and reality of oneness. The spiritual individual acts out of that sense of oneness which gives him immediate and direct perception of the demand of self on other self, the need of the life, the good, the work of love and sympathy that can truly be done. A realization of spiritual unity, a dynamization of the intimate consciousness of one-being, of one self in all beings, can alone found and govern by its truth the action of the divine life.

If you want a friendlier world, make friends. (that’s as smart as I get!)
What could be more obvious; and yet, more difficult.

Social law external to the individual is an advantage; and yet, can be a considerable disadvantage. It is an advantage when self-control and self-finding are weak, when demands of ‘personal egoism’ need to be moderated; and also, when violent ‘collective egoism’ is rampant and menacing.

It is a disadvantage, however, when mature people are ready to transcend ‘egoism’, becoming one-within-the-One. Internal relating is direct, immediate rather than mediated through ‘constructive thought’.

AUROBINDO QUOTE:
An external unity with others must always be an outward joining and association of external lives with a minor inner result; the mind and heart attach their movements to this common life and the beings whom we meet there; but the common external life remains the foundation, - the inward constructed unity, or so much of it as can persist in spite of mutual ignorance and discordant egoisms, conflict of minds, conflict of hearts, conflict of vital temperaments, conflict of interests, is a partial and insecure superstructure.

Beyond ‘constructive thought’ is to commit to the Divine within oneself and within others in radical oneness (your neighbor ‘as’ yourself).

AUROBINDO QUOTE (continued)
The spiritual consciousness, the spiritual life reverses this principle of building; it bases its action in the collective life upon an inner experience and inclusion of others in our own being, an inner sense and reality of oneness. The spiritual individual acts out of that sense of oneness which gives him immediate and direct perception of the demand of self on other self, the need of the life, the good, the work of love and sympathy that can truly be done. A realization of spiritual unity, a dynamization of the intimate consciousness of one-being, of one self in all beings, can alone found and govern by its truth the action of the divine life.