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after it has happened, not before. For the problem of the very best
that can happen is an individual problem, whether the individual
be a nation or a single human being; and all depends upon the per-
sonal attitude. If, in the presence of circumstances that are about
to take place, you can take the highest attitude possible — that
is, if you put your consciousness in contact with the highest con-
sciousness within reach, you can be absolutely sure that in that
case it is the best that can happen to you. But as soon as you fall
from this consciousness into a lower state, then it is evidently not
the best that can happen, for the simple reason that you are not
in your very best consciousness. I even go so far as to affirm that
in the zone of immediate influence of each one, the right attitude
not only has the power to turn every circumstance to advantage
but can change the very circumstance itself. For instance, when a
man comes to kill you, if you remain in the ordinary consciousness
and get frightened out of your wits, he will most probably succeed
in doing what he came for; if you rise a little higher and though full
of fear call for the divine help, he may just miss you, doing you a
slight injury; if, however, you have the right attitude and the full
consciousness of the divine presence everywhere around you, he
will not be able to lift even a finger against you. ...
I have had innumerable examples of the power of right atti-
tude. I have seen crowds saved from catastrophes by one single
person keeping the right attitude. But it must be an attitude that
does not remain somewhere very high and leaves the body to its
usual reactions. If you remain high up like that, saying, “Let God’s
will be done”, you may get killed all the same. For your body may
be quite undivine, shivering with fear: the thing is to hold the true
consciousness in the body itself and not have the least fear and be
full of the divine peace.
CWM 3: 154-5 The Mother

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