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If a fault is shown to you it is as if a treasure were shown to you;
that is to say, each time that you discover in yourself a fault, in-
capacity, lack of understanding, weakness, insincerity, all that
prevents you from making a progress, it is as if you discovered a
wonderful treasure.
CWM 3: 220-221

Q: I want to overcome a difficulty: it is that when I perceive faults
or weaknesses in myself, something tries to justify them or to pre-
vent me from attending to them.

This “something” is the insincerity of an ignorant self-esteem
which has not yet understood that it is nobler and loftier to recog-
nise one’s faults in order to correct them, than to conceal them in
the hope that they will not be noticed.
As for all psychological problems, here too sincerity, a total
and uncompromising sincerity, is the true remedy.
CWM 16: 364 The Mother

You speak of insincerity in your nature. If insincerity means the
unwillingness of some part of the being to live according to the
highest light one has or to equate the outer with the inner man,
then this part is always insincere in all. The only way is to lay stress
on the inner being and develop in it the psychic and spiritual con-
sciousness till that comes down in it which pushes out the dark-
ness from the outer man also.
CWSA 29: 52

Insincerity and insanity
Those who fall into insanity have lost the true touch and got
into the wrong contact. It is due either to some impurity and un-
spiritual desire with which the seeker enters into the way or some

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