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and then you arrange things well — they must be well arranged,
it must be very beautiful. And when it is time to come back, you
put a full stop once again and tell those things, "Stay very quiet
till I return!" And you come back into your body. And you continue
this every evening and write a book of wonderful fairy-tales — pro-
vided you remember them when you wake up…..
And on the trust he has in what happens to him, on the ab-
sence of the mind's critical sense, and a simplicity of heart, and a
youthful and active energy — it depends on all that—on a kind of
inner vital generosity: one must not be too egoistic, one must not
be too miserly, nor too practical, too utilitarian—indeed there are
all sorts of things one should not be... like children. And then, one
must have a lively power of imagination, for— I seem to be telling
you stupid things, but it is quite true — there is a world in which
you are the supreme maker of forms: that is your own particular
vital world. You are the supreme fashioner and you can make a
marvel of your world if you know how to use it. If you have an
artistic or poetic consciousness, if you love harmony, beauty, you
will build there something marvellous which will tend to spring up
into the material manifestation.
When I was small I used to call this "telling stories to oneself".
It is not at all a telling with words, in one's head: it is a going away
to this place which is fresh and pure, and... building up a wonder-
ful story there. And if you know how to tell yourself a story in this
way, and if it is truly beautiful, truly harmonious, truly powerful
and well co-ordinated, this story will be realised in your life — per-
haps not exactly in the form in which you created it, but as a more
or less changed physical expression of what you made.
That may take years, perhaps, but your story will tend to or-
ganise your life. But there are very few people who know how to
tell a beautiful story; and then they always mix horrors in it, which
they regret later. CWM 8: 116-18

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