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Section 2: Practice
How to Make Our Resolutions Firm

Q: Sweet Mother, how can we make our resolution very firm?

By wanting it to be very firm! (Laughter)
No, this seems like a joke... but it is absolutely true. One does
not want it truly. There is always, if you... It is a lack of sincerity.
If you look sincerely, you will see that you have decided that it
will be like this, and then, beneath there is something which has
not decided at all and is waiting for the second of hesitation in
order to rush forward. If you are sincere, if you are sincere and get
hold of the part which is hiding, waiting, not showing itself, which
knows that there will come a second of indecision when it can
rush out and make you do the thing you have decided not to do...

But if you really want it, nothing in the world can prevent you
from doing what you want. It is because one doesn’t know how
to will it. It is because one is divided in one’s will. If you are not
divided in your will, I say that nothing, nobody in the world can
make you change your will.

But one doesn’t know how to will it. In fact one doesn’t even
want to. These are velleities: “Well, it is like this.... It would be
good if it were like that... yes, it would be better if it were like
that... yes, it would be preferable if it were like that.” But this is
not to will. And always there at the back, hidden somewhere in a
corner of the brain, is something which is looking on and saying,
“Oh, why should I want that? After all one can as well want the op-
posite.” And to try, you see... Not like that, just wait... But one can
always find a thousand excuses to do the opposite. And ah, just a
tiny little wavering is enough... pftt... the thing swoops down and
there it is. But if one wills, if one really knows that this is the thing,

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