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<span style="color:#000000;">There is but one remedy: that signpost must always be there, a mirror well placed in one's feelings, impulses, all one's sensations. One sees them in this mirror. There are some which are not very beautiful or pleasant to look at; there are others which are beautiful, pleasant, and must be kept. This one does a hundred times a day if necessary. And it is very interesting. One draws a kind of big circle around the psychic mirror and arranges all the elements around it. If there is something that is not all right, it casts a sort of grey shadow upon the mirror: this element must be shifted, organised. It must be spoken to, made to understand, one must come out of that darkness. If you do that, you never get bored. When people are not kind, when one has a cold in the head, when one doesn't know one's lessons, and so on, one begins to look into this mirror. It is very interesting, one sees the canker. "I thought I was sincere!"—not at all.(The Mother, 1 April 1953) <ref>http:/span/incarnateword.in/cwm/05/1-april-1953#p10</ref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The greatest obstacle to the transformation of one's own character is hypocrisy. If you always keep this in mind when dealing with a child, you can do him a lot of good. Of course, you must not sermonise or lecture him, etc. You should simply make him understand that there is a nobility in the being, a great purity, a great love of beauty, which is so powerful that even the most wicked and criminal people are forced to acknowledge a truly beautiful or heroic or selfless act. (The Mother, 1 April 19536 January 1951) </span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0515/16-apriljanuary-19531951#p10p28</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The MotherFirst of all, 6 January 1951) to be in such a state of purity and beauty that you do not perceive ugliness and evil—it is like something that does not touch you because it does not exist in you.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-49#p5</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The second step is to be positively conscious of the supreme Good and supreme Beauty behind all things, which sustains all things and enables them to exist. When you see Him, you are able to perceive Him behind this mask and this distortion; even this ugliness, this wickedness, this evil is a disguise of Something which is essentially beautiful or good, luminous, pure. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1510/6-januaryaphorism-195149#p28p9</ref></u></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">First of all, to be in such "It is a state of purity and beauty that you do pity my arms are too thin or my legs are too long or my back is not perceive ugliness and evil—it straight or my head is like something that does not touch you because it does not exist in you.</span><span style=quite harmonious"background-color, if one said:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.It must be otherwise, my arms must be proportionate, my body harmonious, every form in/cwm/10/aphorism-49#p5</u></span><span style=me must express a higher beauty"background-color:transparent;color:#000000;, then one will succeed… ">The second step Why! that disharmony I had in my face is to be positively conscious disappearing; that sign of the supreme Good and supreme Beauty behind all thingsbrutality, unconsciousness which sustains all things and enables them to existwas in my expression, it is going away. When " And then ten years later you see Him, you are able to perceive Him behind this mask and this distortion; even this ugliness, this wickednessdon't recognise yourself any longer. (The Mother, this evil is a disguise of Something which is essentially beautiful or good, luminous, pure.</span>17 June 1953) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1005/aphorism17-49june-1953#p9p39</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is infinitely more difficult to tell a story beautiful from beginning to end than to write a story ending with a sensational event or a catastrophe. Many authors, if they had to write a story which ends happily, beautifully, would not be able to do it—they do not have enough imagination for that. Very few stories have an uplifting ending, almost all end in a failure—for a very simple reason, it is much more easy to fall than to rise. (The Mother, 17 June 195326 February 1951) </span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0504/1726-junefebruary-19531951#p39p23</ref></span>

<span style="color:#000000;">And if you know how to tell yourself a story in this way, and if it is truly beautiful, truly harmonious, truly powerful and well co-ordinated, this story will be realised in your life. (The Mother, 26 February 195118 April 1956) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/18-april-1956#p56</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Spiritual beauty has a contagious power.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p3</ref></u></span> <span style="color:#000000;">When a child is full of enthusiasm, never throw cold water on it, never tell him, "You know, life is not like that!" You should always encourage him, tell him, "Yes, at present things are not always like that, they seem ugly, but behind this there is a beauty that is trying to realise itself. This is what you should love and draw towards you, this is what you should make the object of your dreams, of your ambitions."</span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">When a child is full of enthusiasm, never throw cold water on it, never tell him, "You know, life is not like that!" You should always encourage him, tell him, "Yes, at present things are not always like that, they seem ugly, but behind this there is a beauty that is trying to realise itself. This is what you should love and draw towards you, this is what you should make the object of your dreams, of your ambitions." (The Mother, 31 July 1957) </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/31-july-1957#p8</ref></u></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Why do you want to do the details? That is not at all necessary. Painting is not done to copy Nature, but to express an impression, a feeling, an emotion that we experience on seeing the beauty of Nature. It is this that is interesting and it is this that has to be expressed, and it is because you have the possibility of doing this that I encourage you to paint.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p49</ref></u></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">There is, behind all things, a divine beauty, a divine harmony: it is with this that we must </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">come into contact; it is this that we must express.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p60</ref></u></span>