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perception of truth within yourself, you can hear anything at
all. It does not even produce the semblance of a vibration —
everything remains absolutely immobile and quiet. And then
if the witness we were speaking about a while ago is there,
looking on at the comedy, he surely smiles.
But if you feel the vibrations which come from the other
person who throws on you all his violence and anger, if you
feel this... at first it does... and then, suddenly, there is a re-
sponse; and then if you yourself begin to get into a temper,
you may be sure that you are as weak as he.
CWM 6: 372 – 373

One must not make a fuss
…..if you want to succeed in having a precise, concrete,
clear, definite thought on a certain subject, you must make
an effort, gather yourself together, hold yourself firm, con-
centrate. And the first time you do it, it literally hurts, it is
tiring! But if you don’t make a habit of it, all your life you
will be living in a state of irresolution. And when it comes
to practical things, when you are faced with — for, in spite
of everything, one is always faced with — a number of prob-
lems to solve, of a very practical kind, well, instead of being
able to take up the elements of the problem, to put them all
face to face, look at the question from every side, and rising
above and seeing the solution, instead of that you will be
tossed about in the swirls of something grey and uncertain,
and it will be like so many spiders running around in your
head—but you won’t succeed in catching the thing.
I am speaking of the simplest of problems, you know; I
am not speaking of deciding the fate of the world or human-
ity, or even of a country — nothing of the kind.
I am speaking of the problems of your daily life, of every

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