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said that moral generosity consists
in being able to recognise the true
worth and superiority of others.
CWM 10: 282; 4: 403-04; 4: 30
The Mother
Flower: Generosity
(Spiritual significance of the flower given
by the Mother)
Impatiens balsamina

Equanimity

Equality means a quiet and unmoved mind and vital, it means not
to be touched or disturbed by things that happen or things said
or done to you, but to look at them with a straight look, free from
the distortions created by personal feeling, and to try to under-
stand what is behind them, why they happen, what is to be learnt
from them, what is it in oneself which they are cast against and
what inner profit or progress one can make out of them; it means
self-mastery over the vital movements,— anger and sensitiveness
and pride as well as desire and the rest, — not to let them get hold
of the emotional being and disturb the inner peace, not to speak
and act in the rush and impulsion of these things, always to act
and speak out of a calm inner poise of the spirit. It is not easy
to have this equality in any full perfect measure, but one should
always try more and more to make it the basis of one’s inner state
and outer movements.
Equality means another thing — to have an equal view of men
and their nature and acts and the forces that move them; it helps
one to see the truth about them by pushing away from the mind
all personal feeling in one’s seeing and judgment and even all the
mental bias. Personal feeling always distorts and makes one see in
men’s actions, not only the actions themselves, but things behind

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