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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother 16 January 1972)</span>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/16-january-1972#p1</ref>
 
<div style="color:#000000;">We are on earth in order to progress and to perfect ourselves in the course of many successive lives. What we cannot do this time, we shall do next time; and every progress we make this time will help us then. </div>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother 15 November 1971)</span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/15-november-1971#p1</u></ref></span>
 
<div style="color:#000000;">Ah! No. You are looking from the wrong side. They could escape dying only if their body did not decay. It is just because their body decays that they die. It is because their body becomes useless that they die. If they are not to die, their body should not become useless. This is just the contrary. It is precisely because the body decays, declines and ends in a complete degradation that death becomes necessary. But if the body followed the progressive movement of the inner being, if it had the same sense of progress and perfection as the psychic being, there would be no necessity for it to die. One year added to another need not bring a deterioration. It is only a habit of Nature. It is only a habit of what is happening at this moment. And that is exactly the cause of death. One can foresee quite well, on the contrary, that the movement for perfection which is at the beginning of life might continue under another form. I have already told you that one does not foresee an uninterrupted growth, for that would need changing the height of the houses after some time! But this growth in height may be changed into a growth in perfection: the perfection of the form. All the imperfections of the form may be gradually corrected, all the weaknesses replaced by strength, all the incapacities by skill. Why should it not be like this? You do not think in that way because you have the habit of seeing things otherwise. But there is no reason why this should not happen.</div>
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