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As soon as you feel you have done what you had to do, as
soon as you think you know what you ought to know, as soon as
you want to sit and enjoy the results of your effort, with the feel-
ing you have worked enough in life, then at once you become old
and begin to decline.
When, on the contrary, you are convinced that what you know
is nothing compared to all which remains to be known, when you
feel that what you have done is just the starting-point of what
remains to be done, when you see the future like an attractive sun
shining with the innumerable possibilities yet to be achieved, then
you are young, however many are the years you have passed upon
earth, young and rich with all the realisations of tomorrow.
And if you do not want your body to fail you, avoid wasting
your energies in useless agitation. Whatever you do, do it in a
quiet and composed poise. In peace and silence is the greatest
strength.
CWM 12: 122-23

So long as we are in a body
So long as we are in a body, whatever its age and difficulties,
it is certain that we have something to do or learn in it, and this
conviction gives the necessary strength to face all vicissitudes.
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For me the Grace is an active reality which guides our destiny
through the ages.
One must not be in a hurry and hasten the departure, even if it
is for the eternal repose or the beatitude of nothingness. As long
as we are in a body, undoubtedly we have yet something to do or
learn therein.
This suggestion of death comes from the "ego" when it feels
that soon it will have to abdicate. Keep quiet and fearless. Every-
thing will be all right.
You speak of absolute renunciation, but to give up the body

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