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dreadfully in comparison with the other state.
Then you can only smile . Instead of being affected be-
cause this one is in a bad mood and that one got angry and
things go wrong and people fight each other and the ele-
ments cause hurricanes, instead of being saddened, you can
only smile. You can only smile , because everything, but
everything is the same — the good and the bad, the lumi-
nous and the dark — everything is the same and everything
grates in comparison with "that." And you see, the experi-
ence you have when you climb up there to find Him isn't the
same thing, because you feel, "Yes, up there everything is
like that, it's very fine," but when you come down here, it's
horrible. But that's not what I am referring to: it's the ex-
perience RIGHT HERE—right here—in other words, what the
world MUST be. What it must be, what obviously it will be...
when men permit it.
They are very attached to their grating, very attached,
they cling to it. They don't feel alive when it doesn't grate.
But they don't know.
Sometimes, in the individual or collective evolution,
there are phases when you have emerged from the grating,
that is to say, you no longer believe in it, no longer believe
in the truth and importance, the reality of those things, but
you don't have the other thing yet, so in between the two...
it's austere, dull and cold. You no longer have the excitement
of one thing, and not yet the joy of the other; you are in be-
tween the two and it's a little arid. But only a small, limited
number of individuals have reached that stage. They are the
people who say, "I don't want this world." And then they go
away.
But as for the other thing...
One does realize that if the other thing were constant,

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