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Sincerity In Practice

In the face of difficulties
Q: Sweet Mother, when one has a difficulty in the day and it is not
possible to see you or tell you about it, what should one do?

If it is not at all possible, you must sit quite alone, try to become
silent, call, call me as though I were there, make me come and put
the difficulty before me absolutely sincerely and objectively; and
then remain very silent, very quiet and wait for the result.
And I think the result comes. For it depends on the nature of
the difficulty. ...
If the difficulty comes from one part of the being wanting
one thing and another part of the being knowing that one must
not have it, then it becomes complicated because the part which
wants can try to introduce its own will into the answer. So when
one sits down, first one must begin by persuading it to make a
little act of sincere surrender, and it is here that one can make true
progress, saying, “Now I am conscious that it is this that I desire,
but I am ready to give up my desire if that should be done.” But
you must do this not only in the head, it must be done sincerely,
and then you proceed as I said. Then one knows — knows what’s
to be done.
Sometimes it is easier when you write it down; you imagine
that I am there and then take a paper and write on it what you
wanted to tell me. Then just the very fact of formulating it clearly
sometimes gives you the true picture of the situation and you can
have the answer more easily. It depends, sometimes it is neces-
sary, sometimes not, but if you are in a confusion, a kind of whirl-
wind, above all, if there is a vital upsurge, the fact of compelling
yourself to put it on paper already quietens you, it begins the work
of purification.
CWM 7: 105-06

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