Answer: By wanting
it to be very firm!
No, this seems like
a joke… but it is absolutely true. One does not want it truly.
It is a lack of sincerity. If you look sincerely, you will see
that you have decided that it will be like this, and then, beneath
there is something which has not decided at all and is waiting
for the second of hesitation in order to rush forward. If you
are sincere, if you are sincere and get hold of the part which
is hiding, waiting, not showing itself, which knows that there
will come a second of indecision when it can rush out and make
you do the thing you have decided not to do…
Nothing in the world
can stop you
But if you really want
it, nothing in the world can prevent you from doing what you want.
It is because one doesn't know how to will it. It is because one
is divided in one's will. If you are not divided in your will,
I say that nothing, nobody in the world can make you change your
will.
But one doesn't know
how to will it. In fact one doesn't even want to. These are velleities:
"Well, it is like this... It would be good if it were like
that… yes, it would be better if it were like that…
yes, it would be preferable if it were like that." But this
is not to will. And always there at the back, hidden somewhere
in a corner of the brain, is something which is looking on and
saying, "Oh, why should I want that? After all one can as
well want the opposite." And to try, you see… Not like
that, just wait… But one can always find a thousand excuses
to do the opposite. And ah, just a tiny little wavering is enough…
pftt… the thing swoops down and there it is. But if one wills,
if one really knows that this is the thing, and truly wants this,
and if one is oneself entirely concentrated in the will, I say
that there is nothing in the world that can prevent one from doing
it, from doing it or being obliged to do it. It depends on what
it is.
One wants. Yes, one
wants, like this. One wants: "Yes, yes, it would be better
if it were like that. Yes, it would be finer also, more elegant."…
But, eh, eh, after all one is a weak creature, isn't that so?
And then one can always put the blame upon something else: "It
is the influence coming from outside, it is all kinds of circumstances."
The breath has passed,
you see. You don't know… something… a moment of unconsciousness…
"Oh, I was not conscious." You are not conscious because
you do not accept… And all this because one doesn't know
how to will.
To learn how to
Will
To learn how to will
is a very important thing. And to will truly, you must unify your
being. In fact, to be a being, one must first unify oneself. If
one is pulled by absolutely opposite tendencies, if one spends
three-fourths of his life without being conscious of himself and
the reasons why he does things, is one a real being? One does
not exist. One is a mass of influences, movements, forces, actions,
reactions, but one is not a being. One begins to become a being
when one begins to have a will. And one can't have a will unless
one is unified.
And when you have a
will, you will be able to say, say to the Divine: "I want
what You want." But not before that. Because in order to
want what the Divine wants, you must have a will, otherwise you
can will nothing at all. You would like to. You would like it
very much. You would very much like to want what the Divine wants
to do. You don't possess a will to give to Him and to put at His
service. Something like that, gelatinous, like jelly-fish…
there… a mass of good wills - and I am considering the better
side of things and forgetting the bad wills - a mass of good wills,
half-conscious and fluctuating…
Ah, that's all, my
children. That's enough for today. There we are.
Only, put this into
practice; just a little of what I have said, not all, eh, just
a very little. There.
- The
Mother
