My Pilgrimage to the Spirit

February 29, 1932

There are two different things—one, when you have done things before in another life and work them out again with less effort, because, the power is already there in you—the other is when you have the power of formation of which I spoke, and whatever is suggested to the mind, the mind constructs and establishes a form of it in itself. But this latter power can cut two ways; it may tempt the mind to construct more images of the reality and mistake them for the reality itself. It is one of the many dangers of a too active mind.

Sri Aurobindo