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Helping Others and the World

Suffering inflicted on others is not a good base on which to build
spiritual realisation.
To advance alone on the path can be a form of egoism. One
can liberate oneself alone only if the others refuse to follow. One
must therefore first offer to lead them along. And if this burdens
the advance and increases the difficulties, one should take it as
the effect of a special Grace that tests the sincerity of the con-
secration in this way. The capacity to receive the divine help is in
proportion to this sincerity.
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To help others is the best way of helping oneself. For, if you are
sincere, you will soon discover that all their difficulties and all their
failures are the sure signs of the same corresponding deficiency
in you. Indeed, they prove that something in you is not perfect
enough to be all-powerful.
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We find in others what is in us. If we always find mud around us, it
proves that there is mud somewhere in us.
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It is only egoism that is shocked to find egoism in others.
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It is a mistake to consider service to humanity as the highest ex-
pression of service to the Divine. To do so is to remain far too
confined within the limits of an exclusive human consciousness .
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The best way of helping others is to transform oneself. Be perfect
and you will be in a position to bring perfection to the world.
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Rise to a higher consciousness for the world to be saved.
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Change yourself if you wish to change the world. Prove by your

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