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One has always something to learn and a progress to make, and in
each circumstance we can find the occasion of learning the lesson
and making the progress.
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Progress: to be ready, at every minute, to give up all one is and all
one has in order to advance on the way.
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The true progress is to come always closer to the Divine.
CWM 15: 75, 77 The Mother

Flower: Progress
(Spiritual significance of the
flower given by the Mother)
Botanical name: Catharanthus roseus

Courage

Courage is the total absence of fear in any form.
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... fear is an impurity, one of the greatest impurities, one of those
which come most directly from the anti-divine forces which want
to destroy the divine action on earth; and the first duty of those
who really want to do yoga is to eliminate from their consciousness,
with all the might, all the sincerity, all the endurance of which they
are capable, even the shadow of a fear. To walk on the path, one
must be dauntless, and never indulge in that petty, small, feeble,
nasty shrinking back upon oneself, which is fear.
An indomitable courage, a perfect sincerity and a sincere self-
giving, so that one does not calculate or bargain, does not give

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