The Mother's brief statements on various aspects of spiritual life including some conversations.
Part One consists primarily of brief written statements by the Mother on various aspects of spiritual life. Written between the early 1930s 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. There are also 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. These reports are identified by the symbol § placed at the end. Part Two consists of thirty-two conversations not included elsewhere in the Collected Works. The first six conversations are the earliest recorded conversations of the 1950s' period. About three-fourths of these conversations were spoken in French and appear here in English translation.
These are a few examples of the numerous short messages which the Mother wrote to people on their birthdays. She called this occasion "Bonne Fête".
My dear child, my love and blessings are and will be with you throughout the year. Let them help you to make one more progress on the way towards the divine goal.
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Let this year be a year of progress and transformation—one more step on the way leading to the Divine Realisation.
2 February 1930
Let this year be for you the year of a complete opening and of the breaking of all limitations.
2 February 1943
Let this year bring you the true faith—a faith that no darkness can obscure.
2 February 1944
Let this day of your birth be for you an occasion to give yourself a little more, a little better to the Divine. Let your consecration be more total, your devotion more ardent, your aspiration more intense.
Open yourself to the New Light and walk with a joyful step on the path.
Resolve on this day that it may be thus and the day will not have passed in vain.
A grain of practice is worth a mountain of theories.
"Lord, on this anniversary day of my birth, grant that the power to know changes in me into a power to transform myself integrally."
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A bonne fête!
A new birth also, the birth into a new consciousness in which you will be above all little personal reactions because you will constantly feel in your heart the presence of the Divine; may it give you the force to surmount all obstacles, all pettiness and all difficulties.
With my love and my blessings.
8 January 1963
On this day, we take the decision to make a decisive step towards the victory of truth.
Each year that passes should be—and necessarily is—a new conquest.
Let a decisive step be taken this year towards His Victory.
13 January 1963
With this new year that starts for you, you must start a new life, with a renewed resolution to drive away from your consciousness and action all that deforms, diminishes, obscures and finally stops your progress and impairs your health.
In your effort for inner growth and purification, you can be sure of being sustained and helped by my force and my blessings.
27 January 1963
Bonne Fête!
May this new year be for you a year of progress in the perfection of work and of consecration, in sincerity, energy and peace.
With my blessings.
16 January 1964
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With my blessings for a year of perfect consecration and integral progress in love and peace.
16 January 1965
Bonne Fête
In silent endurance, one step forward towards the victory, with the help of eternal love.
13 January 1966
To mark one more step on the luminous road leading to the Divine Realisation in Peace, Love and Joy.
13 January 1967
With my love for a life of collaboration and my blessings for the prolonged continuation of this happy collaboration in peace and love.
13 January 1971
With my love, my trust and my blessings for transformation. Forward to the Realisation.
13 January 1973
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