The Winds of Wonder

Persevere in your patient efforts and all your aspirations will be fulfilled.
Bonne fête

The Mother 1956

Without heroism man cannot grow into Godhead; courage, energy and strength are among the very first principles of the divine nature in action. — Sri Aurobindo

Bonne Fête! given by the Mother 13 August 1963

Sweets for Patrick

And this is from Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Polonius’s precepts to his son Laertes

Polonius

Yet here, Laertes! Aboard, aboard, for shame!

The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,

And you are stayed for. There, my blessing with thee.

And these few precepts in thy memory

See thou character.

                         Give thy thoughts no tongue,

Nor any unproportioned thought his act.

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,

Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel,

But do not dull thy palm with entertainment

Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware

Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,

Bear’t that the opposèd may beware of thee.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy,

For the apparel oft proclaims the man,

And they in France of the best rank and station

Are of a most select and generous chief in that.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,

For loan oft loses both itself and friend,

And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

This above all — to thine own self be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Farewell. My blessing season this in thee!

Laertes

Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord. 

Polonius

The time invites you, go. Your servants tend.

[Act One Scene Three]