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Depression

Not to be depressed – it is extremely important. Depression is a sign of weakness, of a bad will somewhere,

One must have a great purity and a great intensity in one’s self-giving, and that absolute trust in the supreme

Almost totally, everybody lives on the surface, all the time, all the time on the surface. And for them it’s even

When one is in the countryside, when one walks under the trees and feels so close to Nature, to the trees,

…we have a number of possibilities which we let sleep within us, because we don’t take the trouble to develop

…if you repeat to a child, if you make him repeat, “I am good, day by day more and more.”

Every time you are afraid to face yourself and hide carefully from yourself what prevents you from advancing, well, it

Wealth is a force… …a force of Nature; and it should be a means of circulation, a power in movement, as

The safest way is precisely not to go down, it is to remain above and from there to put a pressure

We have a sense of beauty and love beauty without even knowing why, and there are things which give the sense of