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Learn to smile always and in all circumstances; to smile at
your sorrows as well as your joys, your sufferings as well as
your hopes, for in a smile there is a sovereign power of self-
mastery.
CWM 14: 177

If you can always smile at life, life also will always smile at
you.
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If one can smile eternally, one is eternally young.
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Eternal smile : a kindness only the Divine can give.

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One often comes across the precept: "Love your enemy and
smile at him." A hypocritical or diplomatic smile may be
easy to manage, but a genuine smile is impossible to extend
to those who have been repeatedly unfair in their dealings.
We lose our trust, cease to expect anything good; an atti-
tude of utter coldness and indifference is the natural one.
How are we to get over it?

You can smile genuinely at an enemy if you are above all
insult and offence. This is the primary condition for the yogic
attitude.
CWM 14: 178

To smile at an enemy is to disarm him.
CWM 14: 178 The Mother

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