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Doing foolish things

Q: There are people who do foolish things...

Yes.

And they know they are doing so, but their mind does not justify
them, it gives no support, no excuse, no reasoning or explanation.
What is this state?

What is this state? People who know that they are doing fool-
ish things, who are conscious, but who are not able to refrain
from them, because their mind does not have enough strength to
check them?...
It is only the psychic being that has the strength to intervene.
If your mind is in contact with your psychic being, if it receives the
influence of the psychic being, then it is strong enough to orga-
nise the resistance. It knows what the true thing is and what the
false; and knowing what the true thing is, if it has the goodwill, it
will organise the resistance, give battle and gain the victory. But
that is the only condition: it must be in contact with the psychic
being. ...
It happens only when you have decided: "Well, this time, I am
going to try not to do it, and I shall not do it, I shall apply all my
strength and I shall not do it." Even if you have just a little suc-
cess, it is much. Not a big success, but just a small success, a very
partial success: you do not carry out what you yearn to do; but the
yearning, the desire, the passion is still there and that produces
whirls within, but outside you resist, "I shall not do it, I shall not
move; even if I have to bind myself hand and foot, I shall not do
it." It is a partial success — but it is a great victory because, due to
this, next time you will be able to do a little more. That is to say,
instead of holding all the violent passions within yourself, you can
begin calming them a little; and you will calm them slowly at first,

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