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become conscious of oneself, more and more conscious and
more and more attentive.

Try this exercise
Try this little exercise: at the beginning of the day, say: “I
won’t speak without thinking of what I say.” You believe, don’t
you, that you think all that you say! It is not at all true, you will
see that so many times the word you do not want to say is
ready to come out, and that you are compelled to make a con-
scious effort to stop it from coming out.
I have known people who were very scrupulous about not
telling lies, but all of a sudden, when together in a group, in-
stead of speaking the truth they would spontaneously tell a
lie; they did not have the intention of doing so, they did not
think of it a minute before doing it, but it came “like that”.
Why? — because they were in the company of liars; there was
an atmosphere of falsehood and they had quite simply caught
the malady!
It is thus that gradually, slowly, with perseverance, first of
all with great care and much attention, one becomes conscious,
learns to know oneself and then to become master of oneself.
CWM 4: 34-36 The Mother

There must be order and harmony in
work. Even what is apparently

the most insignificant thing must be
done with perfect
perfection, with a sense of cleanliness,
beauty, harmony and order.
CWM 14: 305 The Mother

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