Changes

<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If you observe yourself attentively, you will see that before acting you need an inner impetus, something which pushes you. In the ordinary man this impetus is generally desire. This desire ought to be replaced by a clear, precise, constant vision of the Truth.</div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother , 21 December 1950)</span>

<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If you observe yourself, you will see that as soon as you do something which disturbs you a little, the mind immediately gives you a favourable reason to justify yourself—this mind is capable of gilding everything. In these conditions it is difficult to know oneself. One must be absolutely sincere to be able to do it and to see clearly into all the little falsehoods of the mental being.</div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(The Mother, 15 January 1951)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/15-january-1951#p3</ref></u></span>

<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">… if each element which comes with its ignorance, its unconsciousness, its egoism, is put before the will to change and one remains awake, compares, observes, studies and slowly acts, that becomes infinitely interesting, one makes marvellous and quite unexpected discoveries. One finds in oneself lots of small hidden folds, little things one had not seen at the beginning; one undertakes a sort of inner chase, goes hunting into small dark corners and tells oneself: "What, I was like that! This was there in me, I am harbouring this little thing"—sometimes so sordid, so mean, so nasty. And once it has been discovered, how wonderful! One puts the light upon it and it disappears and you no longer have those reactions which made you so sad before, when you used to say, "Oh! I shall never get there.</div><div style="color:#000000;">(The Mother, 19 April 1951)</divspan><div style="color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/19-april-1951#p14</ref></u></div>