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<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/20-june-1956#p11</ref>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">There is nothing you cannot understand if you give your brain the time to widen and perfect itself. (The Mother, 12 December 1956) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/12-december-1956#p15</ref></span> 
(The Mother 12 December 1956)
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/12-december-1956#p15</ref>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">For one who wants to grow in self-perfection, there are no great or small tasks, none that are important or unimportant; all are equally useful for one who aspires for progress and self-mastery. It is said that one only does well what one is interested in doing. This is true, but it is truer still that one can learn to find interest in everything one does, even in what appear to be the most insignificant chores. The secret of this attainment lies in the urge towards self-perfection. Whatever occupation or task falls to your lot, you must do it with a will to progress; whatever one does, one must not only do it as best one can but strive to do it better and better in a constant effort for perfection. In this way everything without exception becomes interesting, from the most material chore to the most artistic and intellectual work. The scope for progress is infinite and can be applied to the smallest thing.</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">And, finally, a word of advice: be more concerned with your own faults than with those of others. If each one worked seriously at his own self-perfection, the perfection of the whole would follow automatically.</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc;"><ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/aims-and-principles#p147</u></ref></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">It is all right to see the imperfections and deficiencies but only on condition it brings a greater courage for a new progress, an increase of energy in the determination and a stronger certitude of victory and future perfection.</span>
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