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vision. This programme is obviously very difficult for a human be-
ing to realise. Unless he has decided to divinise himself, it seems
almost impossible that he could be free from all these contraries
within him. And yet, so long as one carries them in himself, one
cannot be perfectly sincere. Automatically the mental, the vital
and even the physical working is falsified. I am emphasising the
physical, for even the working of the senses is warped: one does
not see, hear, taste, feel things as they are in reality as long as one
has a preference. So long as there are things which please you
and others which don’t, so long as you are attracted by certain
things, and repulsed by others, you cannot see things in their real-
ity; you see them through your reaction, your preference or your
repulsion. The senses are instruments which get out of order, in
the same way as sensations, feelings and thoughts. Therefore, to
be sure of what you see, what you feel, what you experience and
think, you must have a complete detachment; and this is obvi-
ously not an easy task. But until then your perception cannot be
wholly true, and so it is not sincere.
… there are others more subtle which are difficult to discern.
For instance, so long as you have sympathies and antipathies, quite
naturally and as it were spontaneously you will have a favourable
perception of what is sympathetic to you and an unfavourable
perception of what — or whom — you dislike. And there too the
lack of sincerity will be flagrant. However, you may deceive your-
self and not perceive that you are being insincere. Then in that
case, you have, as it were, the collaboration of mental insincerity.
For it is true that there are insincerities of slightly different types
according to the state of being or the parts of the being. Only, the
origin of these insincerities is always a similar movement arising
from desire and the seeking of personal ends — from egoism, from
the combination of all the limitations arising from egoism and all
the deformations arising from desire.
In fact, as long as the ego is there, one cannot say that a be-

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