Consecrate Your Life to The Realization of Something Higher — Mother

February 21 1958

Only those years that are passed uselessly make you grow old.A year spent uselessly is a year during which no progress has been accomplished, no growth in consciousness has been achieved, no further step has been taken towards perfection.Consecrate your life to the realisation of something higher and broader than yourself and you will never feel the weight of the passing years.

Nov 19 1954

When a child lives in normal conditions, it has a spontaneous confidence that all it needs will be given to it.This confidence should persist, unshaken, throughout life; but the limited idea, ignorant and superficial, of its needs which a child has, must be replaced progressively by a wider, deeper and truer conception which culminates in the perfect conception of needs in accordance with the supreme wisdom, until we realise that the Divine alone knows what our true needs are and rely upon Him for everything.

Messages, Letters and Conversations, On Education, Vol 12, CWM, The Mother.