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lurch there is no place in the future of this movement. A brave,
frank, clean-hearted, courageous and aspiring youth is the only
foundation on which the future nation can be built.
CWSA 8: 168 Sri Aurobindo

Progress is Youth
For a happy and effective life, the essentials are sincerity, hu-
mility, perseverance and an insatiable thirst for progress. Above all,
one must be convinced of a limitless possibility of progress. Prog-
ress is youth; at a hundred years of age one can be young.
If the growth of consciousness were considered as the princi-
pal goal of life, many difficulties would find their solution.
The best way of not becoming old is to make progress the
goal of our life.
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One must learn always not only intellectually but also psychologi-
cally, one must progress in regard to character, one must cultivate
the qualities and correct the defects; everything should be made
an occasion to cure ourselves of ignorance and incapacity; life be-
comes then tremendously interesting and worth the trouble of
living it.
CWM 12: 123-24 The Mother

To be young is to live in the future for the future. To

be young is to be always ready to abandon what one
is in order to become what one ought to be....
And above all, the most important:

"To be young is never to admit the irreparable.
The Mother: Conversation with a Disciple, March 29, 1967

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