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Be careful, child, do not open the door to depression, dis-
couragement and revolt—this leads far, far away from con-
sciousness and makes you sink into the depths of obscurity
where happiness can no longer enter. Your great strength
was your smile; because you knew how to smile at life, you
also knew how to work with courage and steadiness, and
in this you were exceptional. But you have followed the ex-
ample of other people, you have learned from them to be
discontented, rebellious, depressed, and now you have let
your smile slip away, and with it your faith and confidence
in me; in this condition, if all the divine forces were to con-
centrate on you, it would be in vain — you would refuse to
receive them.
There is only one remedy, and you must lose no time in
accepting it: recover your smile, regain your faith, become
once more the confident child you were, do not brood over
your faults and difficulties — it is your smile that will chase
them away.

CWM 16: 67 – 68

The Grace of unshakable calm
Agitation, violence, anger, all these things are always,
without exception, signs of weakness. And especially when
one gets carried away in one’s speech and says things one
should not say, this indeed is the sign of a frightful mental
weakness — mental and vital — frightful. Otherwise you may
hear all the insults in the world, people may tell you all pos-
sible stupidities; if you are not weak, you may perhaps not
smile outwardly, for it is not always good taste to smile, but
deep within you, you are smiling, you let it pass, it does not
touch you.... Simply, if your mind has formed the habit of
being quiet as it is recommended here, and you have the

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