THE HOUR OF GOD

    There are moments when the Spirit moves among men and the breath of the Lord is abroad upon the waters of our being; there are others when it retires and men are left to act in the strength or the weakness of their own egoism. The first are periods when even a little effort produces great results and changes destiny; the second are spaces of time when much labour goes to the making of a little result. It is true that the latter may prepare the former, may be the little smoke of sacrifice going up to heaven which calls down the rain of Gods' bounty.

- ( The Hour of God - 1970 Edition P. 3 )

    Failures must be originally numerous in everything great and difficult, but the time comes when the experience of the past failures can be profitably used and the gate that so long resisted opens. In this as in all great human aspirations and endeavours, an a priori declaration of impossibility is a sign of ignorance and weakness, and the motto of the aspirant's endeavour must be the solvitur ambulando of the discoverer. For by the doing the difficulty will be solved. A true beginning has to be made; the rest is a work of Time in its sudden achievements or its long patient labour.

- ( The Human Cycle - American Edition P. 296 )

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Rig.1/10/1-2

"The priests of the word climb thee like a ladder, O hundred-powered. As one ascends from peak to peak, there is made clear the much that has still to be done".

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Rig.5/ 19/1

"State is born upon state; covering after covering becomes conscious of knowledge; in the lap of the Mother the soul sees."

( The English rendering is Sri Aurobindo's)