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A healthy humility

If you impose a discipline upon yourself and if it isn’t too stupid, it may help you. A discipline, I tell

The more the imperfections, the longer it takes; the more the attachments one has, the longer it takes. BUT THE GOAL

One must have around oneself so intense an atmosphere in a total surrender to the Divine, so intensified around oneself that everything

When fear comes, if one succeeds in putting upon it consciousness, knowledge, force, light, one can cure it altogether. Ref:

…for oneself, who can look inside himself quite positively and precisely and know exactly what is out of order, why

If one wants to open a door, a key is necessary, isn’t it? Well, for the door separating you from

We justify all our weaknesses? It is not a positive want of self-confidence; it is a lack of confidence in what

…if you want to get true inspiration, inner guidance, the guide, and if you want to have the force, to receive

Naturally, if one’s surrender is truly sincere and there is this constant attitude in the being, this total self giving

One must be very great, very pure, have a very high and very disinterested spiritual consciousness in order to be