Debou's Correspondence with The Mother

7 February 1964

Debou, my dear little child,

We will try and find you someone suitable.

But to tell the truth, you cannot expect good work from a servant that you don’t supervise.

That is why I always prefer to do the work myself rather than leave it to a maid or a man-servant. My most luminous meditations have sometimes occurred while I was cooking or polishing the wood floor. But it is true that it was not for myself that I was cooking or polishing the floor in my room.

The moral of the story is that one should not attach too much importance to these material things and that one must keep smiling in all circumstances.

With my tenderness and my blessings

7 February 1964