Chapter 35Progress
Book 1. Part One: Letters, Messages and Other Short Written Statements
* Progress: the reason why we are on earth.
* The purpose of earthly life is progress. If you stop progressing you will die. Every moment that you spend without progressing is one step closer to your grave.
* From the moment you are satisfied and aspire no longer, you begin to die. Life is movement, life is effort; it is marching forward, climbing towards future revelations and realisations. Nothing is more dangerous than wanting to rest.
* One has always something to learn and a progress to make, and in each circumstance we can find the occasion of learning the lesson and making the progress.
11 September 1934
* Progress: to be ready, at every minute, to give up all one is and all one has in order to advance on the way.
29 June 1950
* There is no end to progress and every day one can learn to do better what one does.
26 April 1954
* Do not think of what you have been, think only of what you want to be and you are sure to progress.
1 June 1954
* Do not look behind, look always in front, at what you want to do — and you are sure of progressing.
2 June 1954
* Let us keep flaming in our heart the fire of progress.
21 June 1954
* What cannot be done today will surely be done later on. No effort for progress has ever been made in vain.
25 June 1954
* Let us progress ourselves, it is the best way of making others progress.
23 July 1954
* Stagnation means decomposition.
No enterprise can flourish unless it is progressive. Go always forward towards a growing perfection.
21 February 1957
* No institution can live unless it is progressive.
The true progress is to come always closer to the Divine. Each year that passes must be marked by a new progress towards perfection.
21 February 1957
* Whatever is new will always meet an opposition from conservative people. If we yield to this opposition, the world will never advance one step.
7 November 1961
* The world progresses so rapidly that we must be ready at any moment to overpass what we know in order to know better.
3 March 1963
* In the constant march forward of the universe, whatever has been accomplished is nothing but the first step towards a greater realisation.
* Each year that passes should be — and is necessarily — a new conquest.
* Everybody and everything can always progress and I am always working in view of a possible improvement, knowing that the greatest difficulty brings always the greatest victory and I trust that you are with me for that.
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