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offer by opening it, making it as receptive as possible so that the
divine Consciousness which sees how you ought to be, may act
directly and change all the se movements into movements more
true, more in keeping with your real truth. This is infinitely more
important than surrendering what one does. It is not what one
does (what one does is very important , that's evident) that is the
most important thing but what one is. Whatever the activity, it
is not quite the way of doing it but the state of consciousness
in which it is done that is important. You may work, do disinter-
ested work without any idea of personal profit, work for the joy
of working, but if you are not at the same time ready to leave this
work, to change the work or change the way of working, if you
cling to your own way of working, your surrender is not complete.
You must come to a point when everything is done because you
feel within, very clearly, in a more and more imperious way, that
it is this which must be done and in this particular way, and that
you do it only because of that. You do not do it because of any
habit, attachment or preference, nor even any conception, even a
preference for the idea that it is the best thing to do — else your
surrender is not total. As long as you cling to something, as long
as there is something in you which says, "This may change, that
may change, but that, that will not change", as long as you say
about anything at all, "That will not change" (not that it refuses
to change, but because you can't think of its changing), your sur-
render is not complete.
It goes without saying that if in your action, your work, you
have in the least this feeling, "I am doing it because I have been
told to do it", and there is not a total adherence of the being, and
you do not do the work because you feel it must be done and
you love doing it; if something holds back, stands apart, separate,
"I was told it had to be done like that so I did it like that", it means
there is a great gulf between you and surrender. True surrender

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