In the Evolutionary Collective, we have been considering the words of The Mother.

Just now I was looking for a photo of her, and I was bombarded by images of Jennifer Lopez.  She starred in the recent Netflix movie of the same name.  The world knows JLo … The Mother not at all.

She was born Mirra Alfassa in 1878 in Paris.  At age 36 she went to India and met Sri Aurobindo, a mystic and spiritual teacher.  She died there at 95, having lived a deeply spiritual life.  She was deemed to have been “the mother” of a new way of being.

Here are some of her words:

Nothing must ever be done that cannot be done before the Divine.

Hmm … the idea of living a life like that shines like a candle before my eyes.

It is not by running away from the world that you will change it.  It is by working there, modestly, humbly but with a fire in the heart, something that burns like an offering.

A modest fire.  Yes, sometimes that’s me.  And sometimes not.

Sri Aurobindo often talked of The Mother:

There is one divine Force which acts in the universe and in the individual and is also beyond the individual and the universe. The Mother stands for all these, but she is working here in the body to bring down something not yet expressed in this material world so as to transform life here.

Am I willing to embrace something so radically new?

I wonder