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.
Patience: indispensable for all realisation.
Patience: the capacity to wait steadily for the Realisation to come.
Accomplishment is without any doubt the fruit of patience.
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With patience one arrives always.
It is not in a day that one can overcome one's own nature. But with patience and enduring will the Victory is sure to come.
With patience any difficulty can be overcome.
9 March 1934
Everything will come in its time; keep a confident patience and all will be all right.
9 August 1934
With patience and perseverance all prayers get fulfilled.
4 February 1938
With sincerity, make an effort for progress, and with patience, know how to await the result of your effort.
21 October 1951
To know how to wait is to put Time on your side.
I worry myself over being exact and regular and punctual. If I ever miss being so, even a little, I get upset and feel that I must hurry all the more. In matters of the inner life also, I incline to do the same.
I think this tendency is to be discouraged.
Yes, it is not good to be impatient and agitated―you must do everything peacefully and quietly without excessive haste.
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If the mind remains quiet in all circumstances and happenings, patience will be more easily increased.
Yoga cannot be done in a hurry―it needs many many years. If you are "pressed for time" it means that you have no intention of doing yoga―is it so?
It is not the soul, but the ego and its pride that feel "defeat and humiliation".
10 November 1961
One goes much faster when he is not in a hurry.
To really move forward, one should feel, with complete confidence, that eternity lies before him.
4 July 1962
Sweet Mother,
Too often the feeling of incapacity and of being far from You comes to discourage the will. I am tired of my way of living, of feeling―and it seems to have no end.
To realise anything one must be patient. And the vaster and more important the realisation, the greater the patience must be.
Blessings.
19 May 1968
Mother, when I write to You, there is always this "I"; I know that I have no right to write like this―it is so egoistic. I don't know how to overcome this difficulty. I know that it is not a big difficulty, but it is like a little pebble which one stumbles over even though one sees it.
One must be patient and stubborn in order to reach the goal.
8 May 1971
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