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.
Happy heart: smiling, peaceful, wide open, without a shadow.
You must never forget that you are much more helpful when you are quietly happy than when you become dramatic.
5 October 1932
Be happy, my child, it is the surest way of progress.
12 April 1934
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Happiness is as contagious as gloom―and nothing can be more useful than to pass on to people the contagion of a true and deep happiness.
25 October 1934
Try to be happy―immediately you will be closer to the Light.
11 July 1935
Indeed he is happy who loves the Divine because the Divine is always with him.
7 March 1937
So many problems have been facing me of late. I wonder how they are to be solved happily.
The only way to a true and lasting happiness is a complete and exclusive reliance on the Divine's Grace.
19 October 1941
Always be good and you will always be happy.
13 October 1951
Let us always do the right thing and we shall always be quiet and happy.
24 May 1954
Let us seek our happiness only in the Divine.
5 June 1954
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When the Divine grants the true inner happiness nothing in the world has the power to snatch it away.
5 October 1954
Spiritual happiness: calm and smiling, nothing can disturb it.
Always remember that on the happiness you give will depend the happiness you get.
2 June 1963
The happiness you give makes you more happy than the happiness you receive.
4 July 1965
To be concerned for one's happiness is the surest way of becoming unhappy.
If we want to keep our happiness intact and pure, we must do our best not to attract upon it the attention of unfriendly thoughts.
To be always happy, with an unclouded, unfluctuating happiness—of all things this is the most difficult to accomplish.
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