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is of no use, of no use.
The picture is very clear, of this whole humanity which
clings in order to climb, which seeks to hold like that, but which
does not give itself — it wants to take! And that, that will not
do. It must do away with itself. Then the Thing will be able to
come and take its place.
The whole secret is there.
For example, all this side of humanity that wants to take
things by force and pulls them up there (gesture indicating as
high as the forehead)... it is interesting: it is interesting, but
it is not that! It is not that; all these possibilities must be
exhausted so that something in humanity is able to under-
stand... that there is only that (Mother opens her hands in a
gesture of self-effacement), and then to let oneself lie prostrate
till one disappears.
Indeed, that is the most difficult thing: to learn to disap-
pear.
CWM 11: 215-16

Collaboration with the Force
Q: Mother, this new force which is going to act, will it act
through individual effort or independently of it?

Why this opposition? It acts independently of all individual
effort, as if automatically in the world, but it creates individual
effort and makes use of it. Individual effort is one of its means
of action, and perhaps the most powerful. If one thinks that
individual effort is due to the individual, it is an illusion, but
if the individual under the pretext that there is a universal ac-
tion independent of himself refuses to make an individual ef-
fort, he refuses to give his collaboration. The Force wants to
use, and does in fact use individual effort as one of the most

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