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.
When a mistake is made, it must always be used as a means for progress; once the necessary change is realised, the mistake and its cause disappear and there can be no repetition.
6 April 1937
It is very good that you have become conscious of the mistakes and defects of the nature. Once you are conscious it is always possible to rise out of them and to change the nature.
23 January 1938
It seems to me, on the contrary, that the best way is to remain where you are and make an effort to discover your own faults―you are bound to have some as everybody has―and try to correct them. To be conscious of one's own mistakes is the surest way to come out of a difficulty.
A mistake recognised is a mistake pardoned.
14 October 1939
A mistake one denies is a mistake one refuses to set right.
Repentance: the first step towards rectifying mistakes.
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It is no use excusing yourself; you must have the will never to fall back into the faults you have committed.
Before going to sleep every night, we must pray that the mistakes we may have committed during the day should not be repeated in future.
20 June 1954
In this last day of the year, let us take the resolution that all our weaknesses and obstinate obscurities will drop from us along with the finishing year.
30 December 1954
A strong and effective resolution not to commit the same faults any more and a complete trust in the Divine's Grace are the only remedy.
28 February 1955
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