Optimism fades with age, and some remain unaware of others' suffering, as seen in those who never experience hardship.
At the Feet of The Mother
Stories Told by the Mother
These stories are revelations of living truths conveyed to us by the Mother. Most of stories have been culled from her “Questions and Answers”. Available as e-books for reading offline. Some of them were also recorded on audio by Jhumur di.
I knew all the greatest artists of the last century or the beginning of this century, and they truly had a sense of beauty, but morally, some of them were very crude.
What has made art what it is, do you want me to tell you this, psychologically?... it is photography.
Perhaps Beethoven’s psychic being had taken body in a shoemaker or anybody else, one does not know!
There is a domain far above the mind which we could call the world of Harmony and, if you can reach there, you will find the root of all harmony that has been manifested in whatever form upon earth.
If you want to have the sense of beauty in itself — which is quite independent of all these tastes, the taste of the race — you must have a universal consciousness.
If in the dream someone kills you ... usually, the next day you are ill, or may be a little later.
If the whole being could simultaneously advance in its progressive transformation, keeping pace with the inner march of the universe, there would be no illness, there would be no death.