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that it was coming from the very highest origin: "This is it, this is
how things will be." But that's for later, of course. To our external
reason, those things seem totally unrealizable, but they will be
realizable in... perhaps a few hundred years, I don't know—it's the
future being prepared. And indeed, that vision has a tremendous
power of creation and realization, and it is always felt physically
(the rest is very still), it's always physical. But it triggered a kind
of very rapid movement of the physical consciousness (within the
most material substance), and caused a dislocation. And so the
day before yesterday, that old formation suddenly returned and
made me understand one aspect of the body's nature, the way the
body is constructed and the usefulness of that construction. So
now things are all right. It has been one more step.
The Mother: Conversation with a Disciple, August 8, 1962

A concentrated will and endurance
To everyone who has lived closely with it, my body gives the
impression of two things: a very concentrated, very stubborn will,
and... such endurance! Sri Aurobindo used to tell me he had never
dreamed a body could have such endurance. And that's probably
why.... But I don't want to curtail this ability in any way, because
it is a cellular will, and a cellular endurance too—which is quite in-
triguing. It's not a central will and central endurance (that's some-
thing else altogether) — it's cellular. That's why Sri Aurobindo
used to tell me this body had been specially prepared and chosen
for the Work — because of its capacity for obstinate endurance
and will. But that's no reason to exercise this ability uselessly! So I
am making sure it relaxes now; I tell it constantly, "Now, now! Just
let go! Relax, have some fun, where's the harm in it?" I have to tell
it to be quiet, very quiet. And it's very surprised to hear that: "Ah!
Can I live that way? I don't have to hurry? I can live that way?"
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