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<div style="color: #000000;">Sometimes, when one sees a generous act, hears of something exceptional, when one witnesses heroism or generosity or greatness of soul, meets someone who shows a special talent or acts in an exceptional and beautiful way, there is a kind of enthusiasm or admiration or gratitude which suddenly awakens in the being and opens the door to a state, a new state of consciousness, a light, a warmth, a joy one did not know before. That too is a way of catching the guiding thread. (The Mother, 26 December 1956) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/26-december-1956#p23</ref></div>

<div span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">''Can those who have a see of beauty also become cruel?''</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">That's a psychological problem. It depends on where their sense of beauty is located. One may have a physical sense of beauty, a vital sense of beauty, a mental sense of beauty. If one has a moral sense of beauty—a sense of moral beauty and nobility—one will never be cruel… But those who were unified, in the sense that they truly lived their art—those, no; they were generous and good. (The Mother, 26 December 195617 March 1954) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-march-1954#p34</ref></divspan>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Shame has admirable results and both in aesthetics and in morality we could ill spare it; but for all that it is a badge of weakness and the proof of ignorance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0810/26aphorism-81-december82-195683#p23p5</ref></span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">''Can those who have a see of beauty also become cruel?''</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">That's a psychological problem. It depends on where their sense of beauty is located. One may have a physical sense of beauty, a vital sense of beauty, a mental sense of beauty. If </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">one has a moral sense of beauty—a sense of moral beauty and nobility—one will never be cruel… But those who were unified, in the sense that they truly lived their art—those, no; they were generous and good.</span> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">(The Mother, 17 March 1954) </span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-march-1954#p34</ref> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">83—Shame has admirable results and both in aesthetics and in morality we could ill spare it; but for all that it is a badge of weakness and the proof of ignorance.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-81-82-83#p5</ref> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">One must be very much higher on the scale to see that what one does is ugly. One must already have at the core of oneself a kind of foreknowledge of what beauty, nobility, generosity are, to be able to suffer from the fact that one doesn't carry them within oneself.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/conjugate-verses#p103</ref></span>