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and trying to mitigate the drawbacks of your own character
        without having the power to transform it. You feel caught in a
        net, you are the slave of something of which you are unaware.
        You are the plaything of circumstances, of unknown forces, of
        a will you do not submit to, but which constrains you. Even the
        most rebellious are slaves, because the only thing that liberates
        you is precisely the act of passing behind the veil and discover-
        ing what lies beyond it. Once you have seen, you know who
        you are and once you have established your true identity, you
        have the key to the true transformation.
            We read, we try to understand, we explain, we try to know.
        But a single minute of true experience teaches us more than
        millions of words and hundreds of explanations.
                                                      CWM 10: 17-19

        The Wisdom of the Supreme Lord
            So the first question is: "How to have the experience?"
            To go within yourself, that is the first step.
            And then, once you have succeeded in going within your-
        self deeply enough to feel the reality of that which is within, to
        widen yourself progressively, systematically, to become as vast
        as the universe and lose the sense of limitation.
            These are the first two preparatory movements.
            And these two things must be done in the greatest possible
        calm, peace and tranquillity. This peace, this tranquillity brings
        about silence in the mind and stillness in the vital.
            This effort, this attempt must be renewed very regularly,
        persistently. And after a certain lapse of time, which may be
        longer or shorter, you begin to perceive a reality that is differ-
        ent from the reality perceived in the ordinary, external con-
        sciousness.
            Naturally, by the action of Grace, the veil may suddenly be


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