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The only way to make life perfect — I mean here, life on earth,
of course — is to look at it from high enough to see it as a whole,
not only in its present totality, but in the whole of the past, pres-
ent and future: what it has been, what it is and what it will be —
one must be able to see everything at once. Because that is the
only way to put everything in its place. Nothing can be eliminated,
nothing should be eliminated, but each thing must be in its place
in total harmony with all the rest. And then all these things that
seem so “bad”, so “reprehensible”, so “unacceptable” to the puri-
tan mind, would become movements of delight and freedom in a
totally divine life. And then nothing would prevent us from know-
ing, understanding, feeling and living this wonderful laughter of
the Supreme who takes infinite delight in watching Himself live
infinitely.
CWM 10: 155-56

Sun of divine laughter
This delight, this wonderful laughter that dissolves every shad-
ow, every pain, every suffering! You only have to go deep enough
within yourself to find the inner Sun, to let yourself be flooded
by it; and then there is nothing but a cascade of harmonious, lu-
minous, sunlit laughter, which leaves no room for any shadow or
pain.
In fact, even the greatest difficulties, even the greatest sor-
rows, even the greatest physical pain — if you can look at them
from that standpoint, from there, you see the unreality of the dif-
ficulty, the unreality of the sorrow, the unreality of the pain — and
there is nothing but a joyful and luminous vibration.
In fact, this is the most powerful way of dissolving difficulties,
overcoming sorrows and removing pain. The first two are relatively
easy — I say relatively — the last one is more difficult because we
are in the habit of considering the body and its feelings to be ex-
tremely concrete, positive; but it is the same thing, it is simply be-

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