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Take a human being, well, apart from a very few exceptions, the
moment his mind is active he tries to get some advantage out of
his beauty and cleverness; he wants it to bring him something,
either men’s admiration or even much more sordid gains yet. Con-
sequently, from the psychic point of view, the rose is better than
human beings.
Only, if you climb a rung higher and consciously do what the
rose does unconsciously, then it is much more beautiful. But it
must be the same thing: a spontaneous flowering of beauty, un-
calculating, simply for the joy of being. Little children have this at
times (at times, not always). Unfortunately, under the influence
of their parents and the environment, they learn to be calculating
when yet very young.
But this kind of wish to gain by what one has or does is truly
one of the ugliest things in the world. And it is one of the most
widespread and it has become so widespread, that it is almost
spontaneous in man. Nothing can turn its back on the divine love
more totally than that, that wish to calculate and profit.

Q: Do flowers love?

This is their form of love, this blossoming. Certainly, when one
sees a rose opening to the sun, it is like a need to give its beauty.
Only, for us, it is almost unintelligible, for they do not think about
what they do. A human being always associates with everything
he does this ability to see himself doing it, that is, to think about
himself, think of himself doing it. Man knows that he is doing
something. Animals don’t think. It is not at all the same form of
love. And flowers, so to speak, are not conscious: it is a spontane-
ous movement, not a consciousness that is conscious of itself,
not at all. But it is a great Force which acts through all that, the
great universal Consciousness and the great Force of universal
love which makes all things blossom in beauty.
CWM 5: 240-41 The Mother

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