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= Recommended Practices =

<div 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.</div>

(The Mother, 1 April 1953)[<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/1-april-1953#p10 ~~http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05~~</~~1-april-1953#p10]~~ref>

<div style="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.</div>

(The Mother, 6 January 1951)<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/6-january-1951#p28</ref>

First of all, 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.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-49#p5The 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/10/aphorism-49#p9 ~~http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10~~</~~aphorism-49#p9]~~ref>

"It is a pity my arms are too thin or my legs are too long or my back is not straight or my head is not quite harmonious", if one said: "It must be otherwise, my arms must be proportionate, my body harmonious, every form in me must express a higher beauty", then one will succeed… "Why! that disharmony I had in my face is disappearing; that sign of brutality, unconsciousness which was in my expression, it is going away." And then ten years later you don't recognise yourself any longer.

(The Mother, 17 June 1953)[<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/17-june-1953#p39 ~~http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05~~</~~17-june-1953#p39]~~ref>

<div style="color:#000000;">(The Mother, 26 February 1951)</div>

[<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/26-february-1951#p23 ~~http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04~~</~~26-february-1951#p23]~~ref>

<div 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.</div>

(The Mother, 18 April 1956)<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/18-april-1956#p56</ref>

Let beauty be your constant ideal.The beauty of the soul

The beauty of thoughtsThe beauty of the actionThe beauty in the workSo that nothing comes out of your hands which is not an expression of pure and harmonious beauty.

Spiritual beauty has a contagious power.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p3</ref>

<div 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."</div>

(The Mother, 31 July 1957)<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/31-july-1957#p8</ref> Copy many beautiful things, but try even more to catch the emotion, the deeper life of things.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p38</ref> 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.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p49</ref> There is, behind all things, a divine beauty, a divine harmony: it is with this that we must come into contact; it is this that we must express.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p60</ref>

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