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very little polite way, "Rubbish!"... To do things that way because
the habit is to do them that way is no argument to me — free, free,
free! The taste for freedom.
You mustn't be a little slave just because you were born from
certain parents in such and such a place — it's by chance, not fate!
No, Mother, it's mostly the sense of smell. There are certain
smells I find very hard to bear.
But you must learn to bear them. Just do this: when you get a
shock, stay very quiet and call — call the Lord or call me, it doesn't
matter (laughing), it has the same effect! (Don't go about re-
peating this!) And then say, "Give me a widened consciousness,"
that's all. And then remain quiet. And then the next time the smell
comes, you'll notice that, oh, it's not so unpleasant, and the third
or fourth time, you will feel the Ananda behind it.
I know this from experience.
It's quite simply a narrowness in the taste because from your
childhood you have been given a certain number of things. You
are used to them: "Then it's good"; you aren't used to them: "Oh,
how horrible!"... You must learn to see why it's there, why it's in
the world — everything in the world is for the delight of being, so
the delight must be there since it's everywhere!
You only have to find it.
The Mother: Conversation with a Disciple, November 15, 1965

The Mother and sleep
You must sleep well. Yes, I have noticed that it's important
to sleep a long time. As soon as you feel tired, let yourself drift
into sleep, don't resist. That's important. I am saying this from per-
sonal experience, because all of a sudden... When there is a length
of time (it lasts an hour, two hours, it depends) during which the
atmosphere is all vibrant with this light-force-joy I spoke of the
other day, and you are as if... it's absolutely full, absolutely full;

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