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SOAR HIGH 

 

      Our consciousness is like a young bird, it must learn to use its wings.

 

      Take your flight towards the heights.

 

      Soar very high and you will discover the great depths.

9 June 1954 

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      The day comes when all barriers have fallen, within and around us and we can feel like the bird that opens its wings for an unopposed soar.

6 December 1954

      A being free from all bondages, flying from height to height in a happy seeking for divine transformation.

 

      A resplendent sun rises above the horizon. It is your Lord that comes to you.

      The whole world awakes and stretches in delight at the contact of His glory.

      As the earth that heaves and opens, as the tree that grows, as the flower that blossoms, as the bird that sings, as the man that loves, let His light permeate you and radiate in an ever-increasing and widening happiness, a happiness steadily moving onward as the stars move in heaven.

 

      Spiritual atmosphere: light, fluid, clear and transparent and so clean !

 

THE DIVINE’S HELP TO MAN

 

      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.

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      A bit of wisdom is welcome.

 

     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.  

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      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.

 

      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. 

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      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.  

BEAUTY

 

      Artistic taste is pleased with beautiful things and is itself beautiful.

 

      Artistic sensibility: a powerful aid to fight ugliness.

 

      Artistic works: all work at the service of beauty.

 

Mother,

May we ask X [an artist] to work on activities which are non-artistic?  

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All and everything can be artistic if it is done in an artistic spirit.

27 April 1966

     Beauty is a great power.

 

      Spiritual beauty has a contagious power.  

 

      Beauty does not get its full power except when it is surrendered to the Divine.

 

      The beauty of tomorrow: beauty which will express the Divine Power.

 

      The beauty of tomorrow manifesting the Divine: a beauty that exists only by the Divine and for the Divine.

 

      Beauty is not sufficient in itself, it wants to become divine.

 

      Pure sense of beauty can be acquired only through a great purification.  

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      The ideal of Beauty moves towards its infinite goal.

 

      Among the most precious things in life are those you do not see with physical eyes.

10 November 1969  

GENERAL 

      Optimism: more helpful than its opposite.

 

      Curiosity: if we want to be exceptional, may it be our attributes that make us so.

 

      Mental curiosity must be seriously controlled for it not to be dangerous.

 

      Physical curiosity takes its value from its purpose.

 

      Chastity: a little austere and proud, it is very reserved.  

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      An attempt is a small thing but it can be a promise for the future.

       

      Inventions have no use except when they are controlled by the Divine.

 

      Gold should not be used except in the service of the Divine.

 

      Charity: simple and sweet, attentive to the needs of all.

 

      Unselfishness: deeply open so as not to refuse anything.  

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