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Escaping catastrophes
Strange feeling.... Since last night, a strange impression
that the Divine has become... (how to formulate it?) like a gold-
en Force pressing down like this (gesture of pressure on the
earth). They alone, who by their aspiration are able to pass
through to the Divine Origin, will escape catastrophes.
There was a catastrophe in Madras: one of our best cars
was in a very serious accident.
Only those who have an aspiration, a sincere and uncondition-
al aspiration towards the Divine, only they will escape — they
will stand in a golden glory.
Extremely interesting.

The Mother: Conversation with a disciple: May 4, 1972

Aspiration implies courage
I remember that once we spoke of courage as one of the
perfections; I remember having written it down once in a list.
But this courage means having a taste for the supreme adven-
ture. And this taste for supreme adventure is aspiration — an
aspiration which takes hold of you completely and flings you,
without calculation and without reserve and without a pos-
sibility of withdrawal, into the great adventure of the divine
discovery, the great adventure of the divine meeting, the yet
greater adventure of the divine Realisation; you throw yourself
into the adventure without looking back and without asking
for a single minute, "What's going to happen?" For if you ask
what is going to happen, you never start, you always remain
stuck there, rooted to the spot, afraid to lose something, to
lose your balance.
That's why I speak of courage — but really it is aspiration,
They go together. A real aspiration is something full of cour-
age.
CWM 8: 40-41

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