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make an offering of this day to the Divine, an offering of all that
one thinks, all that one is, all that one will do;
(2) and at night, before going to sleep, it is good to review the
day, taking note of all the times one has forgotten or neglected to
make an offering of one’s self or one’s action, and to aspire or pray
that these lapses do not recur.
This is a minimum, a very small beginning — and it should in-
crease with the sincerity of your consecration.
CWM 16: 315–316

Live in harmony with the highest ideal
When you are absolutely sincere, you make a constant effort
to live in harmony with the highest ideal of your being, the truth of
your being. At every moment, in all that you think, all that you feel
and all that you do, you try as perfectly as possible, as completely
as possible, to put yourself in harmony with the highest ideal or,
if you are conscious of it, with the truth of your being—then you
have reached true sincerity. And if you are like that, if truly you
do not act from egoistic motives or for personal reasons, if you
act guided by your inner truth, that is, if you are perfectly sincere,
it is absolutely the same to you whether the whole world judges
you in one way or another. In this state of perfect sincerity you
do not need to appear good or to be approved by others, for the
first thing you experience when you are in harmony with your true
consciousness is that you do not care what you look like. Whether
you look like this or like that, whether you seem indifferent, cold,
distant, proud, all this is of no importance; provided, I repeat this,
you are absolutely sincere, that is, you never forget that you live in
order to realise your inner, central truth.
CWM 4: 16–17 The Mother

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