Chapter 37Success

Perfection is all that we want to become in our highest aspiration.

9 October 1966

* Thirst for perfection: constant and multiple aspiration.

* Never forget the goal. Never stop aspiring. Never halt in your progress, and you are sure to succeed.

* Power of success: the power of those who know how to continue their effort.

* It is not enough to try, you must succeed.

* One must never try for the sake of succeeding.

7 April 1952

* (Someone suggested that the popularity of an Ashram journal would increase if its readers were asked for their reactions and expectations. When the matter was referred to the Mother, she wrote:)

Let us become as vulgar as we can and success is sure to come.

16 January 1955

* All that is done with the purpose of pleasing the public and obtaining success is vulgar and leads to falsehood. I enclose a deeper view of the subject.1 Blessings.

18 January 1965

* Whatever circumstance is given to you, make the best use of it in line with the Truth; to take advantage of it is quite different. All success depends upon the measure of your truth.

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27 June 1972

* a perfect consecration.

* Spiritual success is the conscious union with the Divine.

* It is in the hour of success that one must be especially vigilant to rise above oneself.

* 1 For those who are eager to get rid of falsehood, here is a way: Do not try to please yourself, do not try either to please others. Try only to please the Lord. Because He alone is the Truth. Each and every one of us, human beings in our physical body, is a coat of falsehood put on the Lord and hiding Him. As He alone is true to Himself, it is on Him that we must concentrate and not on the coats of falsehood.