Mediocrity is Sin
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
AUROBINDO QUOTE
” . . . he would live and act in an entire transcendent freedom, a complete joy of the spirit, an entire identity with the cosmic self and a spontaneous sympathy with all in the universe. All beings would be to him his own selves, all ways and powers of consciousness would be felt as the ways and powers of his own universality. But in that inclusive universality there would be no bondage to inferior forces, no deflection from his own highest truth: for this truth would envelop all truth of things and keep each in its own place, in a relation of diversified harmony, - it would not admit any confusion, clash, infringing of boundaries, any distortion of the different harmonies that constitute the total harmony. His own life and the world life would be to him like a perfect work of art; it would be as if the creation of a cosmic and spontaneous genius infallible in its working out of a multitudinous order.”
Angelus Silesius, also a spontaneous genius working out of a ‘multitudinous order’, said, “It is a sign of mediocrity to want other people to resemble oneself.” He saw that humanity, unable to unite with the Spirit of the Living God, was ’stuck’ in the mental, trusting ego consciousness that adapts, adjusts, fits-in, conforms to the world of the Collective Ego.
Mediocrity must be replaced by humility and profundity!
Transformation is the only ‘way’ (Tao teh ching), when understood as the incarnation of the eternal Tao/Logos. The ego, of itself, is clearly not able to realize the presence of the Living God . . . too often, creating religion, instead.