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== More Ways Towards Perfection ==
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">The Divine is the perfection towards which we move.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc;"><ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-and-man#p8</u></ref></span>
<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></span>
<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></span>
<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>