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day. They become something quite woolly.
Well, it is to avoid this that you are told, when your brain
is in course of being formed, “Instead of letting it be shaped
by such habits and qualities, try to give it a little exactitude,
precision, capacity of concentration, of choosing, deciding,
putting things in order, try to use your reason.”
Of course, it is well understood that reason is not the
supreme capacity of man and must be surpassed, but it is
quite obvious that if you don’t have it, you will live an alto-
gether incoherent life, you won’t even know how to behave
rationally. The least thing will upset you completely and you
won’t even know why, and still less how to remedy it. While
someone who has established within himself a state of ac-
tive, clear reasoning, can face attacks of all kinds, emotional
attacks or any trials whatever; for life is entirely made up of
these things — unpleasantness, vexations — which are small
but proportionate to the one who feels them, and so natu-
rally felt by him as very big because they are proportionate
to him. Well, reason can stand back a little, look at all that,
smile and say, “Oh! no, one must not make a fuss over such
a small thing.”
CWM 8: 182 – 183

Learn to love
Independence!... I remember having heard an old occult-
ist and sage give a beautiful reply to someone who said, “I
want to be independent! I am an independent being! I exist
only when I am independent!” And the other answered him
with a smile, “Then that means that nobody will love you,
because if someone loves you, you immediately become de-
pendent on this love.”
It is a beautiful reply, for it is indeed love which leads to

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