= How Can We Expand/Widen Our Consciousness? =
== To Take Everything it Can Into Itself ==
But this in the terms of an ignorant consciousness translates itself into the will to expand, to be a boundless finite, to take everything it can into itself, to enter into everything and possess it, even to be possessed if by that it can feel itself satisfied and growing in or through others or can take into itself by subjection the being and power of others or get thereby a help or an impulse for its life-affirmation, its life-delight, its enrichment of its mental, vital or physical existence.
<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). The origin and remedy of falsehood,error,wrong and evil. In The life divine II.
http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-origin-and-remedy-of-falsehood-error-wrong-and-evil#p29</ref>
... kindness is an indispensable step towards the widening and illumination of the consciousness.
(The Mother, 25 May 1934)
<ref>The Mother. (2003). Series one. In More answers from the mother.
http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/25-may-1934#p2</ref>
== Raise Ourselves to Dwell on Higher and Wider Levels ==