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ferent from what it is so that people may have a good opin-
ion of you and think you someone very remarkable.... It was
that which spoke in you — not your active consciousness,
but what was there and pushed the consciousness from be-
hind. When you were not quite on your guard, it made use
of your mouth, your tongue, and then there you were! The
lie came out. I am giving you this example — there are a mil-
lion others. And it is extremely interesting. And to the extent
one discovers this within oneself and says sincerely, “It must
change”, one finds that one acquires a sort of inner clear-
sightedness, one gradually becomes aware of what goes on
in others, and instead of getting angry when they are not
quite what one would like them to be, one begins to under-
stand how things happen, how it is that one is “like this”,
how reactions are produced.... Then, with the indulgence of
knowledge, one smiles. One no longer judges severely, one
offers the difficulty in oneself or in others, whatever may be
its centre of manifestation, to the divine Consciousness,
asking for its transformation.
CWM 4: 336 – 337
Smiling at Death
There are people who have acquired such control of their
mind over their body that they feel nothing; I told you this
the other day about certain mystics: if they think the suf-
fering inflicted upon them is going to help them cross the
stages in a moment and give them a sort of stepping-stone
to attain the Realisation, the goal they have put before them,
union with the Divine, they no longer feel the suffering at all.
Their body is as it were galvanised by the mental conception.
This has happened very often, it is a very common experi-
ence among those who truly have enthusiasm. And after all,
if one must for some reason or other leave one’s body and

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