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Dissolution of the Ego

Change of attitude
Q: What attitude should one take to get out of the ego?

Attitude? It is rather a will, isn’t it? You must will it.... What
should one do, are you asking that?
The surest means is to give oneself to the Divine; not to
try to draw the Divine to oneself but try to give oneself to
the Divine. Then you are compelled at least to come out a little
from yourself to begin with. Usually, you know, when people
think of the Divine, the first thing they do is to “pull” as much
as they can into themselves. And then, generally, they receive
nothing at all. They tell you, “Ah! I called, I prayed and I did not
have the answer. I had no answer, nothing came.” But then, if
you ask, “Did you offer yourself?” — “No, I pulled.” — “Ah, yes,
that is why it did not come!” It is not that it did not come, it
is that when you pull you remain so shut up in your ego, as I
told you just now, that it raises a wall between what is to be
received and yourself. You put yourself in prison and then you
are astonished that in your prison you feel nothing.
A prison, and worse: without any windows on the street.
Throw yourself out (Mother opens her hands), give yourself
without holding back anything, simply for the joy of giving
yourself. Then there’s a chance that you may feel something.
But if one tries to feel...
If one tries to feel? Is this not still an egoism, this trying to
feel?... If one wants to get out of the ego while still remaining
egoistic, it is very difficult, isn’t it? The two are pretty contra-
dictory.
“Try to feel”— why? for your own satisfaction?
CWM 6: 137-38

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