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How to Find the Soul

This is the first thing necessary — aspiration for the Divine.
The next thing you have to do is to tend it, to keep it always
alert and awake and living. And for that what is required is concen-
tration — concentration upon the Divine with a view to an integral
and absolute consecration to its Will and Purpose.
Concentrate in the heart. Enter into it; go within and deep and
far, as far as you can. Gather all the strings of your consciousness
that are spread abroad, roll them up and take a plunge and sink
down.
A fire is burning there, in the deep quietude of the heart. It
is the divinity in you — your true being. Hear its voice, follow its
dictates.
CWM 3: 1

In order to find the soul you must go in this way (gesture of going
deep within), like this, draw back from the surface, withdraw deep
within and enter, enter, enter, go down, down, down into a very
deep hole, silent, immobile, and there, there’s a kind of... something
warm, quiet, rich in substance and very still, and very full, like a
sweetness — that is the soul. And if one is insistent and is conscious
oneself, then there comes a kind of plenitude which gives the feel-
ing of something complete that contains unfathomable depths
in which, should one enter, one feels that many secrets would be
revealed... like the reflection in very peaceful waters of something
that is eternal. And one no longer feels limited by time.
One has the feeling of having always been and of being for
eternity.
That is when one has touched the core of the soul.
CWM 9: 310 The Mother

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