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.
Progress is the sign of the divine influence in creation.
Progress: the reason why we are on earth.
The purpose of earthly life is progress. If you stop progressing you will die. Every moment that you spend without progressing is one step closer to your grave.
From the moment you are satisfied and aspire no longer, you begin to die. Life is movement, life is effort; it is marching forward, climbing towards future revelations and realisations. Nothing is more dangerous than wanting to rest.
One has always something to learn and a progress to make, and in each circumstance we can find the occasion of learning the lesson and making the progress.
11 September 1934
Progress: to be ready, at every minute, to give up all one is and all one has in order to advance on the way.
29 June 1950
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There is no end to progress and every day one can learn to do better what one does.
26 April 1954
Do not think of what you have been, think only of what you want to be and you are sure to progress.
1 June 1954
Do not look behind, look always in front, at what you want to do—and you are sure of progressing.
2 June 1954
Let us keep flaming in our heart the fire of progress.
21 June 1954
What cannot be done today will surely be done later on. No effort for progress has ever been made in vain.
25 June 1954
Let us progress ourselves, it is the best way of making others progress.
23 July 1954
Stagnation means decomposition.
No enterprise can flourish unless it is progressive.
Go always forward towards a growing perfection.
21 February 1957
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No institution can live unless it is progressive.
The true progress is to come always closer to the Divine.
Each year that passes must be marked by a new progress towards perfection.
Whatever is new will always meet an opposition from conservative people. If we yield to this opposition, the world will never advance one step.
7 November 1961
The world progresses so rapidly that we must be ready at any moment to overpass what we know in order to know better.
3 March 1963
In the constant march forward of the universe, whatever has been accomplished is nothing but the first step towards a greater realisation.
Each year that passes should be—and is necessarily—a new conquest.
Everybody and everything can always progress and I am always working in view of a possible improvement, knowing that the greatest difficulty brings always the greatest victory and I trust that you are with me for that.
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