Peace is one of the twelve attributes of the Mother.
Peace is a deep quietude where no disturbance can come—a quietude with a sense of established security and release.
Sri Aurobindo – Letters on Yoga: CWSA, Vol.29, p 138
Peace is a calm deepened into something that is very positive amounting almost to a tranquil waveless Ananda.
Sri Aurobindo – Letters on Yoga: CWSA, Vol.29, p137
Peace of mind must be acquired not through favourable circumstances but through inner transformation.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol. 14, p141
In peace and inner silence you will more and more become conscious of the constant Presence.
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In peace and silence the Eternal manifests. Let nothing trouble you and the Eternal will manifest.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol. 14, p140
Be peaceful, confident in the divine working.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol. 14, p141
Peace, peace upon all the earth….
Not the peace of an inconscient sleep or a self-satisfied inertia; not the peace of a self-forgetful ignorance and a dark, heavy indifference, but the peace of the omnipotent force, the peace of perfect communion, the peace of integral awakening, of the disappearance of all limitation and all darkness….
The Mother – Prayers and Meditations: CWM, Vol. 1, p195
To want what the Divine wants in all sincerity is the essential condition for peace and joy in life. Almost all human miseries come from the fact that human beings are almost always persuaded they know better than the Divine what they need and what life is supposed to bring them. The majority of human beings want other human beings to behave according to their own expectations and life circumstances to follow their own desires, hence they suffer and are unhappy.
The Mother – Agenda: Vol. 13, p54
In the very depths of your being, deep within your breast, the Divine Presence is always there, luminous and peaceful, full of love and wisdom. It is there so that you may unite with it and it may transform you into a luminous and radiant consciousness.
Together you and I shall try to silence all the external noise on the surface of your being, so that in silence and peace you may unite with this inner glory.
Then that day will become the day of your new birth.
The Mother – More Answers from the Mother: CWM, Vol. 17, pp 365-66
Each time that you feel restless you ought to repeat, speaking inside yourself without exterior sound and thinking of me at the same time:
“Peace, peace, O my heart!” Do it steadily and you will be pleased with the result.
My love and blessings.
The Mother – Some Answers from the Mother: CWM, Vol. 16, p150
It is only in the calm that one can know and do. All that is done in agitation and violence is an aberration and a folly. The first sign of the divine presence in the being is peace.
The Mother – On Education: CWM, Vol. 12, p114
Give yourself, all that you are and what you do, to the Divine, and you will have peace.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol. 14, p101
Faithfulness is a condition for peace and protection…Be faithful to the Divine and you will enjoy a constant peace.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol. 14, p156
Nowhere will you be able to find peace unless you have peace in your heart.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol. 14, p138
It is not in the outward circumstances that you must look for quietness, it is from inside yourself. Deep inside the being there is a peace that brings quietness in the whole being down to the body, if we allow it to do so.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol. 14, p138
Look upon everything with a benevolent smile. Take all the things which irritate you as a lesson for yourself and your life will be more peaceful and more effective as well, for a great percentage of your energy certainly goes to waste in the irritation you feel when you do not find in others the perfection that you would like to realize in yourself.
The Mother – On Thoughts and Aphorisms: CWM, Vol. 10, pp 22-23
The first thing to do in the sadhana is to get a settled peace and silence in the mind. Otherwise you may have experiences, but nothing will be permanent. It is in the silent mind that the true consciousness can be built.
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface and you will feel your true being within separate from them, observing but not carried away, able to watch and judge them and reject all that has to be rejected and to accept and keep to all that is true consciousness and true experience.
Sri Aurobindo – Letters on Yoga: CWSA, Vol.29, pp 149-50
The only thing I can suggest about diseases is to call down peace. Keep the mind away from the body by whatever means—whether by reading Sri Aurobindo’s books or meditation. It is in this state that the Grace acts. And it is the Grace alone that cures. The medicines only give a faith to the body. That is all.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol. 14, p149
Always I answer your letters but rarely I have time to put my answer on paper. You are capable of receiving these answers directly, but for that you must learn to keep your mind silent − this is the true meditation − the brain blank, immobile and turned upward. This is the necessary condition to receive the answers. If you can hand over the care of your existence and your development to the Supreme Consciousness, then peace will enter your heart and your problems will be solved.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol. 14, p348
The peace comes fully at the meditation time because the Mother’s concentration at that time brings down the power of the higher consciousness and one can receive it if one is able to do so. Once it begins to come, it usually increases its force along with the receptivity of the sadhak until it can come at all times and under all conditions and stay longer and longer till it is stable. The sadhak on his side has to keep his consciousness as quiet and still as possible to receive it. The Peace, Power, Light, Ananda of the higher spiritual consciousness are there in all veiled above. A certain opening upwards is needed for it to descend—the quietude of the mind and a certain wide concentrated passivity to the descending Influence are the best conditions for the descent.
Sri Aurobindo – Letters on Yoga: CWSA, Vol. 30, pp 481-82
It is from the Divine that a sadhak receives peace, a peace quite independent from outward circumstances. Turn more towards the Divine, aspire for the real inner peace and you will get enough peace to carry on your work without disturbance.
Blessings.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol. 14, p141
Exterior things must be of little importance when one does “sadhana”. The needed inner peace can be established in any surroundings.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol. 14, p217
To will what Thou willest always in all circumstances, is the only way of enjoying an unshakable peace.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol. 15, p216
Let the vast peace of the Divine penetrate you entirely and initiate all your movements.
The Mother – Words of the Mother: CWM, Vol. 14, p139
Only a formless Form of self was left,
A tenuous ghost of something that had been,
The last experience of a lapsing wave
Before it sinks into a bourneless sea,—
As if it kept even on the brink of Nought
Its bare feeling of the ocean whence it came.
A Vastness brooded free from sense of Space,
An Everlastingness cut off from Time;
A strange sublime unalterable Peace
Silent rejected from it world and soul.
Sri Aurobindo – Savitri : CWSA, Vol. 33, Book Three ,p 308
Peace
To want what You want always and in every circumstance is the only way to enjoy an unshakable peace.
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