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I am speaking of the clear perception of reciprocal influences:
what acts and reacts on your nature; it is this one does not
have. For example, one becomes suddenly uneasy or happy, but
how many people can say, “It is this”? And it is difficult to know,
it is not at all easy. One must be quite “awake”; one must be
constantly in a very attentive state of observation.

To be awake
There are people who sleep twelve hours a day and say the
rest of the time, “I am awake”! There are people who sleep
twenty hours a day and the rest of the time are but half awake!
To be in this state of attentive observation, you must have,
so to say, antennae everywhere which are in constant contact
with your true centre of consciousness. You register every-
thing, you organise everything and, in this way, you cannot be
taken unawares, you cannot be deceived, mistaken, and you
cannot say anything other than what you wanted to say. But
how many people normally live in this state? It is this I mean,
precisely,when I speak of “becoming conscious”. If you want to
benefit most from the conditions and circumstances in which
you find yourself, you must be fully awake: you must not be
taken by surprise, you must not do things without knowing
why, you must not say things without knowing why. You must
be constantly awake.

To be individualised
You must also understand that you are not separate indi-
vidualities, that life is a constant exchange of forces, of con-
sciousnesses, of vibrations, of movements of all kinds. It is as
in a crowd, you see: when everyone pushes all go forward, and
when all recede, everyone recedes. It is the same thing in the
inner world, in your consciousness. There are all the time forces

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