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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc;"><ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-and-man#p8</u></ref></span>
<div span style="color: #000000;">Fundamentally, whatever be the path one follows—whether the path of surrender, consecration, knowledge—if one wants it to be perfect, it is always equally difficult, and there is but one way, one only, I know of only one: that is perfect sincerity, but perfect sincerity! (The Mother, 12 May 1954) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/12-may-1954#p34</ref></divspan>
<div span style="color: #000000;">If you want to be peaceful, happy, always satisfied, to have perfect equality of soul, you must tell yourself, "Things are as they should be," and if you are religious you should tell yourself, "They are as they should be because they are the expression of the divine Will" (The Mother, 22 February 1956)<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/22-february-1956#p17</ref></divspan>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">If you said to yourself, my children, "We want to be as perfect instruments as possible to express the divine Will in the world", then for this instrument to be perfect, it must be cultivated, educated, trained. It must not be left like a shapeless piece of stone. When you want to build with a stone you chisel it; when you want to make a formless block into a beautiful diamond, you chisel it. Well, it is the same thing. When with your brain and body you want to make a beautiful instrument for the Divine, you must cultivate it, sharpen it, refine it, complete what is missing, perfect what is there. (The Mother, 13 May 1953) <ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/13-may-1953#p18</u></ref></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">But we can attain to the highest without blotting ourselves out from the cosmic extension. Brahman preserves always Its two terms of liberty within and of formation without, of expression and of freedom from the expression. We also, being That, can attain to the same divine self-possession. The harmony of the two tendencies is the condition of all life that aims at being really divine. Liberty pursued by exclusion of the thing exceeded leads along the path of negation to the refusal of that which God has accepted. Activity pursued by absorption in the act and the energy leads to an inferior affirmation and the denial of the Highest. But what God combines and synthetises, wherefore should man insist on divorcing? To be perfect as He is perfect is the condition of His integral attainment. <ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-destiny-of-the-individual#p18</u></ref></span>
<div span style="color: #000000;">But if you remain in that consciousness and look from there, then you begin to understand something of the truth. And this consciousness has to be so total, that even if things come directly against you, even the physical movement of someone coming to beat you (you must not allow him to kill you, no; you have perhaps to do what is necessary not to get killed), but if you are yourself in this perfect consciousness and have no personal reaction, well, I give you the guarantee the other cannot kill you. He will not be able to, even if he tries. He will not be able to beat you, even if he tries. Only, you must not have a single violent or wrong vibration, you understand? Even if there is just a little false vibration, that opens the door and the thing enters and all goes wrong. You must be fully conscious, have the full knowledge, the perfect mastery over everything, the clear vision of the Truth—and perfect peace. (The Mother, 20 May 1953) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/20-may-1953#p54</ref></divspan>
<div span style="color: #000000;">….one may act with a perfect knowledge of what should be done, and without intervention—the least intervention—of the reasoning mind. The mind is silent: it simply looks on and listens in order to register things, it does not act. (The Mother, 23 December 1953) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/23-december-1953#p8</ref></divspan>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">It is only in the supreme Consciousness that you can attain the perfect expression of yourself. (The Mother, 29 February 1956) <ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/29-february-1956#p24</u></ref></span>