{"id":4078,"date":"2013-07-13T01:53:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4078"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:53:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:53:16","slug":"35-enthusiasm-straightforwardness-vol-14-words-of-the-mother-volume-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/14-words-of-the-mother-volume-14\/35-enthusiasm-straightforwardness-vol-14-words-of-the-mother-volume-14","title":{"rendered":"-35_Enthusiasm-Straightforwardness.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nEnthusiasm
\nand Straightforwardness <\/span><\/font><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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Joyous enthusiasm: the
\nbest way of facing life.<\/span><\/p>\n

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True enthusiasm is full of a peaceful endurance. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Our courage and
\nendurance must be as great as our hope and our hope has no limits. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>2 August
\n1954<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

A steady hope helps much
\non the way. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>15 August
\n1954<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Our hopes are never too
\ngreat for manifestation. <\/span><\/p>\n

We cannot conceive of any thing that cannot be. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>22 August
\n1954 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Straightforwardness
\nshows itself as it is, without compromising. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Transparency can come only as a result of perfect sincerity. <\/span><\/p>\n

Page <\/span>
\n―<\/span> 186<\/span><\/p>\n

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Illumined transparency: an effect of the Divine Grace. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Integral transparency:
\nit is the result of perfect goodwill and sincerity. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Integrality is
\nsuper-sincerity. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>17 December
\n1972<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Page <\/span>
\n―<\/span> 187<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nNobility and Refinement<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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Nobility: the incapacity
\nfor any pettiness either of sentiments or of action. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Aristocracy: incapable of baseness and pettiness, it asserts
\nitself with dignity and authority. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Dignity affirms its worth, but demands nothing. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Dignity of the emotions: not to permit one’s emotions to
\ncontradict the inner Divinity. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Dignity in the physical:
\nabove all bargaining. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Psychic dignity refuses
\nto accept anything that lowers or debases. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Refinement: gradually
\ngrossness is eliminated from the being. <\/span><\/p>\n

Page <\/span>
\n―<\/span> 188<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sensitivity: one of the
\nresults of the refinement of the being. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Gentleness: always
\ngracious and wishing to give pleasure. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Charm envelops and
\nconquers by an inexhaustible sweetness. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Sweetness adds its
\nsmiling touch to life without making a fuss. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Sweetness itself becomes
\npowerful when at the service of the Divine. <\/span><\/p>\n

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A smile acts upon
\ndifficulties as the sun upon clouds <\/span>―<\/span> it disperses them. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I don’t think that one
\ncan ever smile too much. Someone who knows how to smile in all circumstances is
\nvery close to true equality of soul. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>22 September
\n1934 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Generally speaking, man
\nis an animal who takes himself terribly seriously. To know how to smile at
\noneself in all circumstances, <\/span><\/p>\n

Page <\/span>
\n―<\/span> 189<\/span><\/p>\n

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to smile at one’s sorrows and
\ndisillusions, ambitions and sufferings, indignation and revolt ―<\/span> what a powerful weapon with which to overcome oneself! <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>7 November
\n1946 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Learn to smile always
\nand in all circumstances; to smile at your sorrows as well as your joys, your
\nsufferings as well as your hopes, for in a smile there is a sovereign power of
\nself-mastery. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>7 November
\n1946 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

If you can always smile
\nat life, life also will always smile at you. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>6 October
\n1960 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

If one can smile
\neternally, one is eternally young. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>6 October
\n1960 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Eternal smile: a kindness
\nonly the Divine can give. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

One often comes across the precept: "Love your enemy and smile at
\nhim.” A hypocritical or diplomatic smile may be easy to manage, but a genuine smile
\nis impossible to extend to those who have been repeatedly unfair in their dealings.
\nWe lose our trust, cease to expect anything good; an attitude of utter coldness
\nand indifference is the natural one. How are we to get over it? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Page <\/span>
\n―<\/span> 190<\/span><\/p>\n

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You can smile genuinely at an enemy if you
\nare above all insult and offence. This is the primary condition for the yogic
\nattitude. <\/p>\n

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To smile at an enemy is
\nto disarm him.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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