The Mind Of An Ordinary

Suffering Makes Us Capable Of The Full Force Of The Master Of Delight; It Makes Us Capable Also To Bear The Utter Play Of The Master Of Power. Pain Is The Key That Opens The Gates Of Strength; It Is The High-road That Leads To The City Of Beatitude.

Spirituality Is Much Wider Than Any Particular Religion, And In The Larger Ideas Of It That Are Now Coming On Us Even The Greatest Religion Becomes No More Than A Broad Sect Or Branch Of The One Universal Religion, By Which We Shall Understand In The Future Man's Seeking For The Eternal, The Divine, The Greater Self, The Source Of Unity And His Attempt To Arrive At Some Equation, Some Increasing Approximation Of The Values Of Human Life With The Eternal And The Divine Values.

A Total Spiritual Direction Given To The Whole Life And The Whole Nature Can Alone Lift Humanity Beyond Itself. . . It Is Only The Full Emergence Of The Soul, The Full Descent Of The Native Light And Power Of The Spirit And The Consequent Replacement Or Transformation And Uplifting Of Our Insufficient Mental And Vital Nature By A Spiritual And Supramental Supernature That Can Effect This Evolutionary Miracle.

What Is Required Is Faith. Man Has Body, Life And Mind But That Is Not All That Constitutes Man. He Has Risen To The Mind As A Result Of Evolution. Now A Higher Consciousness Will Be Evolved - This I Call Supermind. It Is The Instrument Of The Divine Consciousness, The Truth-consciousness.

There Are Two Powers That Alone Can Effect In Their Conjunction The Great And Dificult Thing Which Is The Aim Of Our Endeavour, A Fixed And Unfailing Aspiration That Calls From Below And A Supreme Grace From Above That Answers.