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.
Our thoughts are still ignorant, they must be enlightened.
Our aspiration is still imperfect, it must be purified.
Our action is still powerless, it must become effective.
25 August 1954
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Listen silently to the order which comes from the Supreme Lord and you will have the capacity to carry it out.
Know what the Divine wants and you will have mastery.
The inner command is more sure than the mental conception.
The reign of reason should not end until the coming of the psychic law which manifests the Divine Will.
Power to reject adverse suggestions: the power which comes from the conscious union with the Divine.
Wisdom cannot be acquired except through union with the Divine Consciousness.
Integral wisdom: that obtained by union with the Divine.
Like everything that belongs to creation, wisdom is progressive.
A bit of wisdom is welcome.
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In the depths of the Inconscient, there also shines the Divine Consciousness resplendent and eternal.
The Divine Will acting in the inconscient is all-powerful even when we do not know it.
Indeed, I am convinced that when the Inconscient is conquered no more conditions will be required; all will be a free decision of the divine Grace.
The Greeks had a keen and exceptional sense of beauty, of eurythmy, of harmony in forms and things. But at the same time they had an equally keen sense of men's impotence in face of an implacable Fate which none could escape. They were haunted by the inflexibility of this Fate, and even their gods seem to have been subject to it. In their mythology and in their legends, one finds little trace of the divine compassion and grace.
This notion of compassion and grace made its appearance in Europe later with the Christian religion—whereas in Asia and especially in India it had long before been the very essence of Buddha's teaching.
So in all the Greek stories, legends and tragedies we find this inexorable cruelty of the decrees of a Fate that nothing can deflect.
The faith that goes to the Cosmic Divine is limited in the power of its action by the necessities of the play.
To get entirely free from these limitations one must reach the Transcendent Divine.
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The only hope is in the capacity of the invisible Power!
Only the supreme consciousness can have an effect on your Karma and this consciousness is independent, above all human consciousness.
The Supreme Power is taking up all the movements. It will turn them into the Truth. No effort is needed, no aid from the mind or any of the instruments, even the individual consent is no longer needed.
Those who are predestined receive the help of an Inner Guide.
Divine solicitude: always active, even when we do not perceive it.
Let us understand and receive with gratitude this Divine Solicitude, so often not understood.
Integral solace: that which one can receive only from the Divine.
Solace: the blessings the Divine grants us.
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