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The first generation of children born in Her city was now nearing adulthood: marked by a certain incongruity between acts and discourse, they shared a distrust and recoil towards all cult and doctrine. But they were curious of everything and would have traded for nothing in the world their place in this environment which they loved and never ceased to discover in spite of all stones encountered. And many others, born in other countries or in the neighborhood but grown together with them, brought with them other riches as well as inherited biases and shortcomings, to the common experience. And all of these children and teenagers, vigorous, eager, often intrepid but sensitive and demanding rightfulness, needed real attention. To be available for their own education – their own discovery of the world and themselves and their own maturing and blossoming -, became the mission of dedicated teams and occasioned the formation of a Centre of Education founded on the principles She and He had established for the ashram school, applied and adapted to the needs of the present. For this also, shelters were wanted, harmonious physical and material structures = the solid poetry of this first “Last School” which R. had erected like a living sculpture in the early years of “Aspiration” had since long become too small and too distant from the new centers of activity.

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What we have banished and rejected away from us, sooner or later returns to us from within and life makes sure to bring us face to face with what we had not known to truly offer, until, accepting that we carry the contradiction

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