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Eternal youth

it is a gift the Divine gives us when we unite ourselves with Him.

 

Hibiscus hirtus Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb. (Malvaceae)

Chinese hibiscus

Salmon orange

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Eternal Youth and Eternal Smile

There, there, I have kept something for you carefully; as soon as I received these flowers this morning, I thought of you: "It will be something for Mona when he comes." I kept them separately. Do you know what they mean?

This one is Eternal Youth, and that one, Eternal Smile.

These are two flowers that complete one another. Two flowers that are very essential for a complete life.

If one remains young eternally and if one can smile eternally, then one takes a great step towards transformation. When one is above the fetters of the ego and the desires, one starts smiling, and when one can keep a constant aspiration for progress, then one remains young. Here are two sure means to reach the goal. Don't waste time. Become an optimist and follow the direct path. There is no need to think.

The Mother

Youth does not depend on the small number of years one has lived, but on the capacity to grow and progress. To grow is to increase one's potentialities, one's capacities; to progress is to make constantly more perfect the capacities that one already possesses.

The Mother

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 12. - On Education

To be young is to live in the future.

To be young is to be always ready to give up what we are in order to become what we must be.

To be young is never to accept the irreparable.

The Mother

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 12. - On Education

To know how to be reborn into a new life at every moment is the secret of eternal youth.

The Mother

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 12. - On Education

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