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.
Truth is eternally beyond all that we can think or say of it.
10 December 1954
Truth cannot be formulated in words, but it can be lived provided one is pure and plastic enough.
When the gates of true knowledge are crossed, no words are left to express what is known.
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He who has crossed the gates of the true Knowledge has nothing more to say or to teach.
To come closer to the Truth, you must often accept not to understand.
25 November 1961
When I am right, no one remembers. When I am wrong, no one forgets.
Because there is no true right and wrong―the only Truth is the Lord and He remembers everything.
26 January 1963
Each idea (or system of ideas) is true in its own time and place. But if it tries to be exclusive or to persist even when its time is over, then it ceases to be true.
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If any element of this totality is taken separately and affirmed as the sole truth, however central or comprehensive it may be, it necessarily becomes a falsehood, for then it denies all the rest of the total Truth. This is precisely what constitutes an indisputable dogma, and this is why it is the most dangerous type of falsehood, because each one affirms that it is the sole and exclusive truth. The absolute, infinite, eternal Truth is unthinkable for the mind which can only conceive that which is spatial and temporal, fragmentary and limited. Thus, on the mental plane, the absolute Truth is divided into innumerable fragmentary and contradictory truths which strive in their entirety to reproduce the original Truth as best they can―for each is a truth that attempts to affirm itself as the sole truth, to the exclusion of all the other truths, which, through their innumerable totality, express progressively in the becoming the Infinite, Eternal and Absolute Truth―that is how they deny the total Truth.
The truth is neither in separation nor in uniformity.
The truth is in unity manifesting through diversity.
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Intellectually, the Truth is the point where all the opposites meet and join to make a unity.
Practically, the Truth is the surrender of the ego, to make possible the birth and manifestation of the Divine.
Doubt is the best arm used by the ego to protect itself from extinction.
These are remarks on the way which may lead you a little further.
They are sent with blessings.
6 October 1965
Truth is above mind; it is in silence that one can enter into communication with it.
To pray to the Divine and to surrender oneself entirely and in all sincerity to Him are the essential preliminary conditions.
24 October 1971
He who sincerely wants to serve the Truth will know the Truth.
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