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\nFebruary <\/i>1, I914 <\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nI TURN towards Thee who art everywhere and
\nwithin ail and outside ail, intimate essence of all and
\nremote from ail, centre of condensation for ail energies,
\ncreator of conscious individualities: 1 turn towards
\nThee and salute Thee, O liberator of the worlds, and,
\nidentified with Thy divine love, I contemplate the earth
\nand its creatures, this mass of substance put into forms
\nperpetually destroyed and renewed, this swarming mass
\nof aggregates which are dissolved as soon as constituted, 
\nof beings who imagine that they are conscient
\nand permanent individualities and who are as ephemeral
\nas a breath, always alike or almost the same, in their
\ndiversity, repeating indefinitely the same desires, the
\nsame tendencies, the same appetites, the same ignorant
\nerrors. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nBut from time to tune Thy sublime light shines in\u00bb
\na being and radiates through him over the world, and
\nthen a little wisdom, a little knowledge, a little disinterested  faith, heroism and compassion penetrates
\nmen’s hearts, transforms their minds and sets free a
\nfew elements from that sorrowful and implacable
\nwheel of existence to which their blind ignorance subjects them. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nBut how much greater a splendour than ail that
\nhave gone before, how marvellous a glory and light would be needed to draw these beings out of the horrible  aberration in which they are plunged by the life <\/font><\/p>\n

\nof cities and so-called civilisations! What a formidable
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\nand, at the same rime, divinely sweet puissance would be needed to turn aside ail these wills from
\nthe bitter,
\nstruggle for their selfish, mean and foolish satisfactions,  to snatch them from this vortex which hides
\ndeath behind its treacherous glitter, and turn them
\ntowards Thy conquering harmony! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO Lord, eternal Master, enlighten us, guide our
\n<\/i>steps,<\/i> show us the way towards the realisation of Thy: law,<\/b> towards
\nthe accomplishment of Thy work. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n1 adore Thee in silence and listen to Thee in a.
\nreligious concentration. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nFebruary<\/i> 2, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nO <\/b> LORD,<\/b> 1 would be a love so living that it can fill every solitude and assuage every sorrow.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nO Lord, 1 cry to Thee: make me a burning brazier
\nwhich consumes ail suffering and transforms it into
\na glad light pouring its rays into the hearts of all !… <\/font><\/p>\n

\nGrant my prayer: Transform me into a brazier of
\npure love and limitless compassion. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nFebruary<\/i> 5, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nWHAT can be said except the same identical
\naspiration : the law of divine love, the purest <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\nexpression of what we can conceive of Thee, must
\nrealise itself more and more upon the earth and
\ntriumph over all ignorant egoism; we must become more and more perfectly the faithful servants of that
\npower of love and light, live in it and by it; it must be
\nthat alone which lives and acts in us. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO Lord, become the sovereign Master of our lives
\nand dispel ail the darknesses which can still prevent
\nus from seeing and constantly communing with Thee. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nLiberate us from ail ignorance, liberate us from
\nourselves that we may open wide the doors of Thy
\nglorious manifestation. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nFebruary<\/i> 7, 1914<\/a> <\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nFOR him who is integrally united with Thee, and therefore constantly conscious of what most
\nperfectly expresses Thee in act under given circumstances,  no external rule is necessary.
\nThe principles of
\nlife are in sum nothing but makeshifts meant to
\ndiminish in the measure of the possible the ignorance of those who do not yet
\nknow Thee, and to remedy,
\nas well as one can, the moments of blindness and
\nobscurity .of those who have only an intermittent
\ncontact with Thee. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nTo make rules for oneself and to make them as
\ngeneral, that is to say, as supple as possible, is good, but on condition that they are considered as no more <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 49<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nthan artificial lights which should be employed only
\nwhen the full and natural light of the communion
\nwith Thee is lacking. Moreover, a constant revision
\nof these rules is imperative; for they can only be the
\nexpression of a present knowledge and must necessarily  gain by every increase, every improvement of
\nknowledge. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThat is why when meditating on the attitude which
\none should have towards ail who approach us, so as
\nnot only to abstain from doing them any harm, but
\nabove ail to strive to do them the greatest good
\npossible\u2014and that means to help them best in making the supreme discovery, the discovery of Thee in them
\n\u2014it seemed to me that no rule was vast and supple enough to adapt itself to Thy law,
\nthe sole true way
\nwas to be always in communion with Thee, so that
\nany solution might be perfectly adapted to the infinite
\ndiversity of circumstances. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nFebruary<\/i> 8, 1914<\/a> <\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nO LORD, sweet Master of love, Thou makest us emerge out of darkness that we may awake to
\nconsciousness, who deliverest us from suffering to make
\nus commune in Thy eternal peace, every morning
\nmy aspiration rises ardently towards Thee and 1
\nimplore that my being integrally awakened <\/b> to the knowledge of Thee, may live only by Thee,
\nin Thee <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\nand for Thee, I implore that more and more perfectly
\nidentified with Thee, I may become nothing else
\nthan Thou manifested in word and act; I implore
\nthat all those who approach us, all those who are
\nconnected with us, may awaken to the full knowledge
\nof Thy divine presence. Thy sovereign law, and let
\nthemselves be definitively transformed by it; I implore
\nthat all men on earth may feel, inspite of their harsh
\nsuffering and in it, the sublime consolation dawn of
\nThy light and Thy love and the marvellous relief of
\nThy peace; I implore that all substance more and
\nmore penetrated with Thy sovereign forces may less
\nand less oppose to Thee the resistance of blind ignorance,  and that triumphing over all obscurity. Thou
\nmayst transfigure definitively, integrally, this world of struggle and anguish into a world of harmony and
\npeace. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nSo that Thy law may be accomplished. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\n
\nFebruary<\/font><\/i><\/b> 9, 1914<\/font><\/a> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nWHATEVER may be the names they give Thee, O Lord, the elite of humanity athirst for an
\nabsolute, ardently seek Thee. Even those who seem
\n<\/b>to <\/b>move farthest away from Thee, even those who are solely occupied with themselves, are they not seeking
\nan absolute in sensation, an absolute of satisfaction, and inspite of its vanity, that seeking also can one
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 51<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nday lead towards Thee, Thou art too much in the; centre, in the heart of everything for even the worst
\negoisms themselves not to be transformed by The&
\ninto aspirations… The only thing which must be
\nfeared and shunned is the inertia of inconscience, of
\nblind and heavy ignorance. That state is quite at the
\nnethermost of the infinite ladder which leads to Thee,
\nAnd all Thy effort consists in drawing the substance
\nfrom this first obscurity so as to make it be born into
\nconsciousness. Passion itself is preferable to inconscience. 
\nWe must therefore constantly march to the
\nconquest of this universal bedrock of inconscience,
\nand making our organism the instrument, transform.
\nit little by little into luminous consciousness. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nOh! Lord, sweet Master of love. Thou whom I see so
\nliving, so conscious in all, I adore Thee with a
\nlimitless devotion. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nFebruary<\/i> 1O, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nWITH peace in the heart and light in the mind, we feel Thee,
\nO Lord, so living in us that we
\nawait events with serenity, knowing that Thy way is
\neverywhere since we carry it in our being, and that
\nin all circumstances we can be heralds of Thy word
\nand servant of Thy work. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nWith a calm and pure devotion we salute Thee
\nand we recognise Thee as the only reality of our being. <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\n
\n
\nFebruary<\/font><\/i><\/b>
\n11, 1914<\/font><\/a> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nAS soon as we rise above the perception of
\ncontingencies, 
\nas soon as we identify our consciousness 
\nwith Thy supreme consciousness, as soon as we
\nthus enter into that consciousness which I cannot
\ndefine otherwise than as absolute Knowledge, how all
\nproblems regarding what we should or should not
\ndo or concerning all the resolutions to be taken,
\nappear easy, a little childish. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe only thing important from the standpoint of
\nthe eternal work, is to become conscious of Thee,
\nto be identified with Thee and to maintain constantly
\nthis conscious identification. But in what concerns the
\nbest use to be made of our physical organism. Thy
\nmode of manifestation upon earth, it is enough, when
\nThou alone art conscious in us, to turn our regard
\ntowards this body to know indisputably what is the
\ntiling it can do best, what is the activity which will
\nemploy most completely all its energies. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAnd without attaching any great importance to this
\nactivity, to this quite relative utilisation, we can take,
\nwithout any difficulty, without any inner discussion,
\nthe decisions which, to the outer consciousness,
\nappear most daring, most hazardous. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nHow all is simple to him who sees things from
\n<\/b>the <\/b>height of Thy eternity! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nI salute Thee, O Lord, with a glad and confident
\ndevotion. May the peace of Thy divine love be on all beings! <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\n
\nFebruary 12,<\/i> 1914<\/a>.<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nWHEN conscious with Thy supreme consciousness,  we consider all terrestrial circumstances
\nwe perceive all their relativity and we say, "Doing this
\nor<\/b> that has after all no great importance, yet such and
\nsuch a way of action will be the best utilisation of
\nsuch and such a faculty or temperament. All actions
\nwhatever they may be, even the most contradictory
\nin appearance, can be the expression of Thy law in
\nthe measure in which they are imbued with the
\nconsciousness of that law, which is not a law of
\npractical application capable of being translated into principles or rules in
\nthe ordinary human consciousness,  but which is a law of attitude, of a constant
\nand general consciousness, something which is
\nnot at all expressed by formulas but which is
\nlived." <\/font><\/p>\n

\nBut as soon as we fall back into the ordinary consciousness,  nothing should any longer be treated
\nlightly, with indifference, the smallest circumstances,
\nthe smallest acts have a great importance and should
\nbe seriously considered; for we should at every
\nmoment strive to do that which will facilitate the
\nidentification of our consciousness with the eternal
\nconsciousness, and carefully avoid all that can be an
\nobstacle to this identification. It is then that the
\nrules of conduct having at their base a perfect
\npersonal disinterestedness should assume all their
\nvalue.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\nWith peace in the heart, light in the mind, hope
\nof certitude in all my being, I salute Thee, O Lord, divine <\/i>Master of eternal
\nlove.
\nThou art our reason of existence and our goal. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n
\nFebruary 13,<\/font><\/i><\/b> 1914<\/font><\/a> <\/font>
\n<\/b> <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nIN the silence of an intense concentration I would
\nunite my consciousness with Thy absolute
\nconsciousness, I would identify myself with Thee, O
\nsovereign Lord of our being, divine Master of love,
\nso that Thy law may become perceptible to us and
\nclear and we may live only by it and for it. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nHow all is beautiful, great, simple and calm in the
\nhours when my thought takes its flight towards Thee
\nand unites with Thee! And from the day when it
\nwill be possible for us to maintain constantly this
\nsupreme clairvoyance, how we shall march in life
\nwith steps at once aerial and assured, above all obstacles  and without any hesitation. For, I know by
\nexperience, all doubt, all hesitation ceases from the
\nvery moment in which we are conscious of Thy law,
\nand if we clearly perceive the extreme relativity of
\nall human action, we know at the same time, with
\nexactitude and precision, what is, in relation to out
\nbody, to our means of acting, the action that is the
\nleast relative…and the obstacles as if by enchantment
\nbut very really disappear. All our efforts, O Lord,<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 55<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nwill henceforth tend more and more constantly
\ntowards the realisation of this marvellous state.
\nMay the peace of Thy certitude awaken in all hearts! <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nFebruary<\/i> 14, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nPEACE, peace upon all the earth! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nMay all escape from the ordinary consciousness <\/font><\/p>\n

\nand be delivered from the attachment for material
\nthings; may they awake to the knowledge of Thy
\ndivine presence, unite themselves with Thy supreme
\nconsciousness and taste the plenitude of peace that
\nsprings from it. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nLord, Thou art the sovereign Master of our being.
\nThy law is our law, and with all our strength we
\naspire to identify our consciousness with Thy eternal
\nconsciousness, that we may accomplish Thy sublime
\nwork in each thing and at every moment. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nLord, deliver us from all care for contingencies,
\ndeliver us from the ordinary outlook on things.
\nGrant that we may henceforth see only with Thy
\neyes and act only by Thy will. Transform us into living torches of Thy divine love. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nWith reverence, with devotion, in a joyful consecration  of my whole being, I give myself,
\nO Lord,
\nto the fulfilment of Thy law. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPeace, peace upon all the earth! <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\nFebruary l5,<\/b><\/i> I9I4<\/b><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nO THOU, sole Reality, Light of our light and
\nLife of our life. Love supreme. Saviour of the
\nworld, grant that more and more I may be perfectly
\nawakened to the awareness of Thy constant presence.
\nLet all my acts conform to Thy law; let there be no
\ndifference between my will and thine. Extricate me
\nfrom the illusory consciousness of my mind, from
\nits world of phantasies; let me identify my consciousness  with the Absolute Consciousness, for that art
\nThou. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nGive me constancy in the will to attain the end,
\ngive me firmness and energy and the courage which
\nshakes off all torpor and lassitude. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nGive me the peace of perfect disinterestedness, the
\npeace that makes Thy presence felt and Thy intervention  effective, the peace that is ever victorious
\nover all bad will and every obscurity. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nGrant, I implore Thee, that all in my being may
\nbe identified with Thee and may I be nothing else than a flaming torch of love, one utterly awakened to
\nThy supreme action of love. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n
\nFebruary<\/font><\/i><\/b> 16, 1914<\/font><\/a> <\/font> <\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nO SUPREME, sole Reality, true Consciousness,
\npermanent Unity, sovereign repose of perfect
\nlight, with what intensity I aspire to be no <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\nmore conscious of anything else than Thee, to
\nbe no more anything else than Thou. This incessant whirl of unreal
\npersonalities, this multiplicity,  this complexity, this excessive inextricable
\nconfusion of conflicting thoughts, struggling
\ntendencies, battling desires, appears to me more
\nand more woeful. We must emerge out of this
\nsea in fury, land on the serenity of Thy peaceful shore. Give me the energy of
\nan indefatigable swimmer.  I would conquer Thee, whatever may be the
\nefforts necessary for that…O Lord, ignorance must
\nbe overthrown, illusion dispelled, and this sorrowful
\nworld must come out of its frightful nightmare, end its terrible dream, to awake
\nat last to the consciousness  of Thy sole Reality. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO immutable Peace, deliver men from ignorance,
\nmay Thy full and pure Light reign everywhere! <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nFebruary<\/i> 17, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nO LORD, how ardently my aspiration rises
\ntowards Thee: give us the full consciousness
\nof Thy law, the constant perception of Thy will, so
\nthat our decision may be Thy decision and our life
\nmay be solely consecrated to Thy service and
\nas perfect an expression as possible of Thy
\ninspiration. <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\nO Lord, dispel all darkness, all blindness, and may
\nevery one possess the calm certitude which is brought
\nby Thy divine illumination! <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\n
\nFebruary<\/font><\/i> 19, 1914<\/font><\/a> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nO<\/font><\/i> LORD,
\nbe always present in my thought! Not that I ask it of Thee, for I know that Thy
\nPresence is constant and sovereign, I know that all
\nthat we see and all that escapes our sight is only what
\nit is because of Thy marvellous intervention,
\nbecause of Thy divine law of love; but I say and I say it again, I implore, in
\norder to avoid
\nforgetfulness and negligence. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO! To become Thy living love so completely as to
\ntransfigure and illumine everything; so completely as to generate in all peace and benevolent satisfaction. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO! To become Thy divine love clairvoyant and
\npure! O! To be that everywhere and always. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nFebruary<\/i> 2O, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHE only thing important, the only thing that
\ncounts, is to will more and more to be identified with Thee, to unite our consciousness with Thy absolute consciousness, to be more and more a peaceful,
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\ncalm, disinterested, strong servitor of Thy sovereign
\nlaw. Thy will of love. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO Lord, give me that peace of perfect disinterested-
\nness, that peace which makes Thy Presence effective,
\nThy intervention efficacious, that peace which is ever
\nvictorious over all bad wills, over all darknesses. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO Lord, very humbly, I pray in order that I may be
\nequal to the height of my task, that nothing in me, conscious or not, may betray Thee by neglecting to serve Thy sacred mission. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nIn a silent devotion, I salute Thee. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nFebruary<\/i> 21, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nEACH day, each moment, must be an occasion for a new and completer consecration; and not one of
\nthose enthusiastic and trepidant consecrations, overactive,  full of the illusion of the work, but a profound
\nand silent consecration which need not be apparent,
\nbut which penetrates and transfigures every action.
\nOur mind, solitary and at peace, must rest always in
\nThee, and from this pure summit it must have
\nthe exact perception of realities, of the sole and eternal Reality, behind
\nunstable and fugitive appearances. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO Lord, my heart is purified from trouble and
\nanguish; it is firm and calm, and it sees Thee in everything;  and whatever the outer actions, whatever the <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 60<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\ncircumstances the future has in store for us, I know
\nthat Thou alone livest, that Thou alone art real in
\nThy immutable permanence, and it is in Thee that we live.
\nMay there be peace upon all the earth. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nFebruary 22,<\/i> 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nWHEN I was a child\u2014about the age of thirteen
\nand for about a year\u2014every night as soon as I
\nwas in bed, it seemed to me that I came out of my body
\nand rose straight up above the house, then above the
\ntown, very high. I saw myself then clad in a magnificent  golden robe, longer than myself, and as I rose,
\nthat robe lengthened, spreading in a circle around m&
\nto form, as it were, an immense roof over the town.
\nThen I would see coming out from all sides men, women, children, old men, sick
\nmen, unhappy men; They gathered under the outspread robe, imploring
\nhelp, recounting their miseries, their sufferings, their
\npains. In reply, the robe, supple and living, stretched
\nout to them individually, and as soon as they touched it, they were consoled or healed, and entered back
\ninto their body happier and stronger than they had ever been before coming out of it. Nothing appeared
\nto me more beautiful, nothing made me more happy,
\nand all the activities of the day seemed to me dull and
\ncolourless, without real life, in comparison with this<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\nactivity of the night which was for me the true life
\nOften as I thus rose, I would see on my left an old
\nman, silent and immobile, who looked at me with a benevolent affection and
\nencouraged me by his presence.  This old man, dressed in a long robe of sombre
\nviolet, was the personification\u2014I knew later\u2014of him
\nwho is called the Man of Sorrows. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nNow the profound experience, the almost ineffable
\nreality is translated in my brain by other notions which
\nI can define thus: <\/font><\/p>\n

\nMany a time during the day and in the night it seems to me that I,\u2014that is to say, my consciousness
\nis wholly concentrated in my heart, which is no longer
\nan organ, not even a feeling, but the divine Love,
\nimpersonal, eternal; being this Love, I feel myself living in the centre of everything Upon the whole
\nearth, and at the same time it seems to me that I am stretching out immense, infinite arms and enveloping
\nwith a limitless tenderness all beings clasped, grouped,
\nnestled upon my breast vaster than the universe…
\nWords are poor and clumsy, O divine Master, and
\nmental translations are always childish…But my
\naspiration for Thee is constant, and, to tell the
\ntruth, it is very often Thyself and Thou alone who
\nlivest in this body, an imperfect means of Thy
\nmanifestation. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nMay all beings be happy in the peace of Thy
\nillumination! <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\n
\n
\nFebruary 23,<\/font><\/i><\/b> 1914<\/font><\/a> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nGRANT, O Lord, that we may be more and more
\nconscious of Thy law; that is to say " one "
\nwith it in order to facilitate its manifestation in every <\/font><\/p>\n

\nthing. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO Lord, grant that I may become master of my vagrant thoughts, that living in Thee, I may perceive
\nlife only through Thee, and that the illusion of the
\nreality of Matter may come to an end, to be replaced.
\nby a perception conforming more to Thy eternal
\nreality. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nLet me live constantly in Thy divine Love,
\n<\/b>so
\n<\/b>that it may be that which lives in me and by me. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nGrant that I may be a useful and clairvoyant collaboratrix  and that all in me may promote the plenitude  of Thy manifestation. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nI know all my imperfections, my difficulties, my
\nweaknesses, I feel where I am ignorant, but I put
\nall my trust in Thee and I bow down before Thee
\nwith a silent devotion. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\n
\nFebruary<\/font><\/i><\/b> 25-26, 1914<\/font><\/a> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nONE who would serve Thee worthily should not be
\nattached to anything, not even to the activities which enable him to commune more consciously
\nwith Thee… But if, in consequence of a mass of <\/font><\/p>\n

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\ncircumstances, material things take a greater place
\nin life than usual, we must know how not to let ourselves be absorbed by them, to keep in the depth
\nof the heart the clear vision of Thy presence, and
\nlive constantly in that serene peace which nothing
\ncan trouble. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO,<\/b> to do everything seeing Thee alone everywhere,
\nand thus to soar above the accomplished act, without
\nany claim which holds us prisoners to the earth,
\ncoming to burden the flight. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO Lord, grant that the offering I make of my
\nbeing may be integral and effective. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nWith a respectful and loving devotion, I bow down
\nbefore Thee, O ineffable Essence, inconceivable
\nReality, without the name. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nFebruary<\/i> 27, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nO LORD, I foretaste the infinite happiness which is the share of those whose life is wholly consecrated to Thee. And this does not depend upon outer-
\ncircumstances, but upon the state of the being and
\nits more or less of illumination. A perfect consecration to Thy law cannot but bring about modifications  in the mass of circumstances, but it is not
\nthey that allow and express this perfect consecration.
\nI mean to say that it is not in given circumstances,
\nalways the same for all, that Thy law is manifested; <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nfar every one this manifestation is different according
\nto his temperament, that is to say, according to the
\nmission which is for the time being assigned to him.
\nin the physical life. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nBut what is invariable and general, is the happy
\npeace the luminous and immutable serenity of all
\nthose who are solely consecrated to Thee, who have
\nno longer in them any darkness, any ignorance, any
\negoistic attachment, any bad will.  <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO, may all awake to this divine peace. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

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