Becoming Whole Quotes

“The next phase after penetrating Matter is to penetrate Life or the life-force in Matter.115 It was not enough to see the purpose and plan of Matter; now he is pursuing the life-force that energizes Matter. The realization given to Aswapathy after perceiving the life-force is the fate of lower life and an understanding of the purpose so as “to release the glory of God in Nature’s mud.”116 In that lower life, he sees the workings of the lower forces—the lower vital force, the animal instincts, and its highest form as thinking. Aurobindo calls this “An unhappy corner in eternity”117 that is under the sway of these animal instincts and that cannot be escaped from except by a connection with the Divine.”
― Leslie Stein, Becoming Whole: Jung's Equation for Realizing God