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so-called illusions of beauty. On the contrary, you must tell a child
— or yourself if you are no longer quite a baby —"Everything in me
that seems unreal, impossible, illusory, that is what is true, that is
what I must cultivate." When you have these aspirations: "Oh, not
to be always limited by some incapacity, all the time held back by
some bad will!", you must cultivate within you this certitude that
that is what is essentially true and that is what must be realised.
Then faith awakens in the cells of the body. And you will see
that you find a response in your body itself. The body itself will feel
that if its inner will helps, fortifies, directs, leads, well, all its limita-
tions will gradually disappear.
CWM 9: 162-63
Wrong education to children
But if when very young, from your earliest childhood, you have
been taught all sorts of disappointing, depressing things — things
that cause decomposition, I could say, disintegration — then this
poor body does its best but it has been perverted, put out of order,
and no longer has the sense of its inner strength, its inner force,
its power to react.
If one takes care not to pervert it, the body carries within it-
self the certitude of victory. It is only the wrong use we make of
thought and its influence on the body which robs it of this certi-
tude of victory. So, the first thing to do is to cultivate this certitude
instead of destroying it; and when it is there, no effort is needed to
aspire, but simply a flowering, an unfolding of that inner certitude
of victory.
The body carries within itself the sense of its divinity. There.
This is what you must try to find again in yourself if you have lost
it. When a child tells you a beautiful dream in which he had many
powers and all things were very beautiful, be very careful never
to tell him, "Oh! life is not like that", for you are doing something
wrong. You must on the contrary tell him, "Life ought to be like that,
and it will be like that!"
CWM 9: 165

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