The Mother's brief written statements on various aspects of spiritual life including some spoken comments.
This volume consists primarily of brief written statements by the Mother on various aspects of spiritual life. Written between the late 1920s and the early 1970s, the statements have been compiled from her public messages, private notes, and correspondence with disciples. About two-thirds of them were written in English; the rest were written in French and appear here in English translation. The volume also contains a small number of spoken comments, most of them in English. Some are tape-recorded messages; others are reports by disciples that were later approved by the Mother for publication.
Lean more exclusively on the Divine's love. When one receives the Divine's love, of what value can be any human love?
2 September 1939
There is always a bitter taste behind the human love―it is only the Divine Love which never disappoints.
5 May 1945
Do not grieve. Human love is fugitive. It is only the Divine's love that never fails.
Certainly one has the right to love and true love carries in itself its joy, but unhappily human beings are egoistic and immediately mix with their love the desire to be loved in return, and this desire is contrary to spiritual truth and the cause of passions and sufferings.
The one you love must have the right of freedom in her feelings and if you want the truth you must understand this right and accept it. Otherwise there will be no end to your miseries. This
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is an occasion to surmount your egoism and to open to the true life. If you decide to make this effort my help will be with you.
The need for human love, to the extent that it is not merely in obedience to the instinct of Nature or to a vital attraction, is the need to have a Divine for oneself alone, at one's entire and exclusive disposal, a Divine who is one's personal property and to whom one gives oneself totally only if the gift is reciprocated.
Instead of enlarging oneself to the size of the Divine and having a love as vast as the universe, one tries to reduce the Divine to one's own size and have His love for oneself alone.
Therefore, human love is not a need of the soul, but rather a concession it makes for a time to the ego.
I have postponed my answer to give you time to look carefully into the problem and to face it with more quiet and detachment.
One thing only I can tell you that whatever the sincerity, simplicity and purity of the relation between two human beings, it shuts them off more or less from the direct divine force and help and limits their strength, light and power only to the sum of their potentialities.
I cannot say that this is very advisable in your case.
15 February 1950
You lose a great part of your strength, energy and capacity due to your so-called human love. It is a great hindrance in your progress.1
If there is, somewhere in some part of your being, still the need for human affection and love, it is better to go through the experience of life; it is the best preparation for Yoga.
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The thirst for affection and love is a human need, but it can be quenched only if it turns towards the Divine. As long as it seeks satisfaction in human beings, it will always be disappointed or wounded.
There is a thirst for Love which no human relation can quench. It is only the Divine's love that can satisfy that thirst.
4 December 1954
They always speak of the rights of love but love's only right is the right of self-giving.
Without self-giving there is no love; but self-giving is very rare in human love which is full of selfishness and demands.
15 August 1955
So long as the ego is there, one cannot love.
Love alone can love, Love alone can conquer the ego.
Self-love is the great obstacle.
Divine love is the great remedy.
One is outwardly alone only if one is closed to the divine love.
8 December 1960
You feel lonely because you feel the need to be loved. Learn to love without demand, to love just for the joy of loving (the most wonderful joy in the world!) and you will never again feel lonely.
11 April 1966
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The Rungs of Love
At first one loves only when one is loved.
Next, one loves spontaneously, but one wants to be loved in return.
Then one loves even if one is not loved, but one still wants one's love to be accepted.
And finally one loves purely and simply, without any other need or joy than that of loving.
15 April 1966
There is a love in which the emotion is turned towards the Divine in an increasing receptivity and growing union. What it receives from the Divine it pours out on others, but truly without demanding a return. If you are capable of that, then that is the highest and most satisfying way to love.
It is not the love that someone feels for you that can make you happy, it is the love you feel for others that makes you happy: for you receive the love that you give from the Divine, who loves eternally and unfailingly.
20 March 1967
All the forms that love has taken in the human consciousness on earth are but awkward attempts, deformed and incomplete, to find once again true Love.
23 March 1967
True love has no need of reciprocation; there can be no reciprocation because there is only one Love, the Love, which has no other aim than to love. It is in the world of division that one feels
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the need of reciprocation―because one lives in the illusion of the multiplicity of Love; but in fact there is only One Love and it is always this sole love which, so to say, responds to itself.
19 April 1967
Indeed, there is only one Love, universal and eternal, as there is only one Consciousness, universal and eternal.
All the apparent differences are colorations given by individualisation and personification. But these alterations are purely superficial. And the "nature" of Love, as of Consciousness, is unalterable.
20 April 1967
When one has found divine Love, it is the Divine that one loves in all beings. There is no longer any division.
1 May 1967
Once one has found divine Love, all other loves, which are nothing but disguises, can lose their deformities and become pure―then it is the Divine that one loves in everyone and everything.
6 May 1967
True love, that which fulfils and illumines, is not the love one receives but the love one gives.
And the supreme Love is a love without any definite object―the love which loves because it cannot do other than to love.
15 May 1968
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There is only one love―the Divine's Love; and without that Love there would be no creation. All exists because of that Love and it is when we try to find our own love which does not exist that we do not feel the Love, the only Love, the Divine's Love which permeates all existence.
5 March 1970
When the psychic loves it loves with the Divine Love.
When you love, you love with the Divine's love diminished and distorted by your ego, but in its essence still the Divine's love.
It is for the facility of the language that you say the love of this one or that one, but it is all the same one Love manifested through different channels.
I have given you the clue to find the love you are seeking for since many years; but it is not a mental clue; and it is only if your mind falls silent that you can feel what I want to convey to you.
Blessings.
14 March 1970
As for true love, it is the Divine Force that allows consciousnesses to unite themselves with the Divine.
22 May 1971
True love is something very deep and calm in its intensity; it may quite well not manifest itself in any exterior acts sensational or affectionate.
Divine Love, true love, finds its delight and its satisfaction in itself; it has no need to be received and appreciated, nor to be shared―it loves for the sake of loving, as a flower blooms.
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To feel this love in oneself is to possess an immutable happiness.
21 June 1971
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