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.
Humility: adorable in its simplicity.
The greater beings are always the most simple and modest.
Correct self-evaluation: simple and modest, does not try to push itself forward.
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Modesty is satisfied with its own charm and does not draw attention to itself.
The more we advance on the Path, the more modest we become and the more we see that we have done nothing in comparison to what remains to be done.
4 June 1956
We must learn that whatever our efforts, whatever our struggles, whatever even our victories, compared with the path still to be traversed what we have already travelled is nothing.
Do not think yourself big or small, very important or very unimportant; for we are nothing in ourselves.We must only live to become what the Divine wills of us.
You are becoming very wise and approaching the realisation that we are nothing, we know nothing and we can do nothing; only the Supreme Divine knows, does and is.
True humility consists in knowing that the Supreme Consciousness, the Supreme Will alone exists and that the I is not.
To be humble means for the mind, the vital and the body never to forget that without the Divine they know nothing, are nothing and can do nothing; without the Divine they are nothing but ignorance, chaos and impotence. The Divine alone is Truth, Life, Power, Love, Felicity.
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Therefore the mind, the vital, and the body must learn and feel, once and for all, that they are wholly incapable of understanding and judging the Divine, not only in his essence but also in his action and manifestation.
This is the only true humility and with it come quiet and peace.
This is also the surest shield against all hostile attack. Indeed, in the human being it is always the door of pride at which the Adversary knocks, for it is this door which opens to let him enter.
Whatever is your personal value or even your individual realisation, the first quality required in yoga is humility.
A true and sincere humility is our safeguard―it is the surest way to the indispensable dissolution of the ego.
Humility and sincerity are the best safeguards. Without them each step is a danger; with them the victory is certain.
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