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mankind out of the mire.
According to Sri Aurobindo, the remedy is quite different.
We must face life as a whole, with all the ugliness, falsehood
and cruelty it still contains, but we must take care to discover in
ourselves the source of all goodness, all beauty, all light and all
truth, in order to bring this source consciously into contact with
the world so as to transform it.
This is infinitely more difficult than running away or shutting
our eyes so as not to see, but it is the only truly effective way —
the way of those who are truly strong and pure and capable of
manifesting the Truth.
CWM 12: 242-43

Writers and the Higher Consciousness
Among the poets and creators can you say who were or who
were not in conscious touch with the Divine? There are some who
are not officially Yogis, they are not gurus and have no disciples;
the world does not know what they do; they are not anxious for
fame and do not attract to themselves the attention of men; but
they have the higher consciousness , are in touch with a Divine
Power, and when they create they create from there. The best
paintings in India and much of the best statuary and architecture
were done by Buddhist monks who passed their lives in spiritual
contemplation and practice; they did supreme artistic work, but
did not care to leave their names to posterity. The chief reason
why Yogis are not usually known by their art is that they do not
consider their art-expression as the most important part of their
life and do not put so much time and energy into it as a mere art-
ist. And what they do does not always reach the public. How many
there are who have done great things and not published them to
the world!
CWM 7: 107-08

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