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The Smile that Makes Everything so Simple

Yesterday someone wrote to me asking: “After all, what is the
Divine?” I answered. I told him that I was giving a reply to help
him, but there could be a hundred which would all be good, one
as good as another.
“The Divine is lived, but cannot be defined.”
And then I added: but as you put to me the question, I answer:
“The Divine is the absolute of perfection, eternal source of all that
exists, of whom we become conscious progressively, all the while
being Himself from all eternity.” Once someone told me also that it
was for him something simply unthinkable. So I answered him: “No!
That does not help you. You have only to think that the Divine is all
(at the maximum, yes), all that we want to become in our highest,
most luminous aspiration. All that we want to become, that is the
Divine.” He was so happy, he told me: “Oh! That way it becomes
easy!”….
At the same time, when there was this look towards
the“something” that needed definition, there was a great silence
everywhere and a great aspiration (gesture as of a flame rising up),
and all the forms which this aspiration took. It was very interest-
ing... the story of the aspiration of earth... towards the wonderful
Unknown which one wants to become.
And everyone — whoever was destined to make the joining —
in his simplicity believes that the bridge he has followed is the only
one. The result: religions, philosophies, dogmas, credos— battle.
Seen as a whole it is very interesting, very charming, with a
Smile that looks out. Oh! this Smile... that looks out. This Smile, as
though it were saying, “You make it so complicated and it could be
so simple!”
To express it in a literary way, one might say: “Such complica-
tions for such a simple thing: to be oneself.”
CWM 11: 64-65 The Mother

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