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Confidence in The Mother

It is true that a great patience and steadfastness is needed. Be then firm and patient and fixed on the aims

The peace starts in the inner being—it is spiritual and psychic but it overflows the outer being—when it is there

A quiet mind, receiving things and looking at them without effervescence or haste, not rushing about or throwing up random ideas, is

These [calling the Mother, praying to her] are acts of the mind, openness is a state of consciousness which keeps

Your attitude towards the change needed and new life is the right one. A quiet, vigilant but undistressed persistence is

Suicide solves nothing – it only brings one back to life with the same difficulties to be faced in worse

If you can achieve quietude followed by an upward openness, it is better than the effort which sways between strong experiences and

Do not attach so much importance to mistakes or insist on your non-receptiveness and unconsciousness. You have only to turn always to

You must establish a basis of equanimity within – the peace of the inner being which these surface movements cannot touch,

Too much importance must not be given to past lives. For the purpose of this Yoga one is what one