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you see, like electric currents. One is not at all aware of all this,
and it is a perpetual conflict of all the wills which are trying to
express themselves; and the strongest one will succeed. But as
there are many of these and as one has to fight alone against a
great number, it is not easy.
So one is tossed like a cork on the waves of the sea.... One
day one wants this, the next day one wants that, at one mo-
ment one is pushed from this side, at another from that, now
one lifts one’s face to the sky (Mother makes the movement),
now one is sunk deep in a hole. And so this is the existence one
has!
First one must become a conscious, well-knit, individualised
being, who exists in himself, by himself, independently of all his
surroundings, who can hear anything, read anything, see any-
thing without changing. He receives from outside only what
he wants to receive; he automatically refuses all that is not in
conformity with his plan and nothing can leave an imprint on
him unless he agrees to receive the imprint. Then one begins to
become an individuality! When one is an individuality, one can
make an offering of it.

Individualising — Step Two
For, unless one possesses something, one cannot give it.
First, one must be, and then afterwards one can give oneself.
So long as one does not exist, one can give nothing.
And for the separative ego to disappear, as you say, one
must be able to give oneself entirely, totally without reserva-
tion. And to be able to give oneself, one must first exist. And to
exist one must be individualised.
If your body were not made in the rigid form it is — for it is
terribly rigid, isn’t it? — well, if all that were not so fixed, if you
had no skin, here, like this, solid, if externally you were the re-

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