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faith and open yourself, you receive all that, and it helps you in
keeping fit and in rejecting the little inner disturbances and re-es-
tablishing order when these come, in protecting yourself against
small attacks or accidents which might have happened. But if
somewhere in your being — either in your body or even in your vi-
tal or mind, either in several parts or even in a single one — there is
an incapacity to receive the descending Force, this acts like a grain
of sand in a machine. You know, a fine machine working quite well
with everything going all right, and you put into it just a little sand
(nothing much, only a grain of sand), suddenly everything is dam-
aged and the machine stops. Well, just a little lack of receptivity
somewhere, something that is unable to receive the Force, that is
completely shut up (when one looks at it, it becomes as it were a
little dark spot somewhere, a tiny thing hard as a stone: the Force
cannot enter into it, it refuses to receive it — either it cannot or
it will not) and immediately that produces a great imbalance; and
this thing that was moving upward, that was blooming so won-
derfully, finds itself sick, and sometimes just when you were in
the normal equilibrium; you were in good health, everything was
going on well, you had nothing to complain about. One day when
you grasped a new idea, received a new impulse, when you had a
great aspiration and received a great force and had a marvellous
experience, a beautiful experience opening to you inner doors, giv-
ing you a knowledge you did not have before; then you were sure
that everything was going to be all right.... The next day, you are
taken ill. So you say: “Still that? It is impossible! That should not
happen.” But it was quite simply what I have just said: a grain of
sand. There was something that could not receive; immediately it
brings about a disequilibrium. Even though very small it is enough,
and you fall ill.
(CWM 5: 176) The Mother

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