All of you who have come here have been told many things; you have been put in contact with a world of truth, you live in it, the air you breathe is full of it. And yet how few of you talow that these truths have value only when they are put into practice and that it is useless to talk about consciousness, knowledge, equality, universality, infinity, eternity, supreme truth, the divine presence and all sorts of things like that, if you yourselves don't make an effort to live these things .and feel them concretely in you. And don't tell yourselves, " Oh, I have been here so many years! Oh, I would really like to see some result for my efforts!" You must know that very persistent efforts and very steadfast endurance are necessary to overcome the least weakness, the least pettiness, the least meanness in one's nature. What is the use of talking about divine love if one cannot love without egoism? What is the use of talking about immortality if one is stubbornly attached to the past and the present and one doesn't want to give anything in order to receive everything?
You are still very young, but you must learn right away that to reach the goal you must know how to pay the price and that to understand the supreme truths you must put them into practice in your daily life: (22 March 1957)
- The Mother
(CWM 9:70-71)