The Mother's Writings

One can learn how to identify oneself. One must learn. It is indispensable if one wants to get out of one’s ego.

Optimism fades with age, and some remain unaware of others' suffering, as seen in those who never experience hardship.

Almost all of man’s works of art — literary, poetic, artistic — are based on the violence of contrasts in life. When one tries to pull them out of their daily dramas, they really feel that it is not artistic.

I knew all the greatest artists of the last century or the beginning of this century, and they truly had a sense of beauty, but morally, some of them were very crude.

What has made art what it is, do you want me to tell you this, psychologically?... it is photography.

Perhaps Beethoven’s psychic being had taken body in a shoemaker or anybody else, one does not know!

There is a domain far above the mind which we could call the world of Harmony and, if you can reach there, you will find the root of all harmony that has been manifested in whatever form upon earth.

If you want to have the sense of beauty in itself — which is quite independent of all these tastes, the taste of the race — you must have a universal consciousness.

If in the dream someone kills you ... usually, the next day you are ill, or may be a little later.