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in sleep you are less exclusively busy with your small affairs,
you have a gleam of something and see, feel something. But
usually, as soon as you are awake again, all this is obliterated
— first, as you know, by the formidable ego which is all full of
itself, and the whole universe moves in accordance with this
ego: you are at the centre, and the universe turns round you.
If you look at yourself attentively, you will see it is like that.
Your vision of the universe — that’s you at the centre and the
universe all around. So there is no place for anything else. It is
not the universe you see: it is yourself you see in the universe.
So, at first, to begin with, one must be able to get out of
the ego. Afterwards, it has to be, you understand, in a cer-
tain state of inexistence. Then you begin to perceive things
as they are, from a little higher up. But if you want to know
things as they really are, you must be absolutely like a mirror:
silent, peaceful, immobile, impartial, without preferences and
in a state of total receptivity. And if you are like that, you will
begin to see that here are many things you are not aware of,
but which are there, and which will start becoming active in
you.
Then you will be able to be in these things instead of being
exclusively enclosed within the little point you are in the uni-
verse.
There are all kinds of ways of getting out of yourself. But it
is indispensable if you want to begin to know things as they are
and not in terms of yourself.
CWM 6: 135-137 The Mother

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