...one should look at all that [difficulties, bad habits] with the smile of someone who says, "I am not that. Oh, this was put on me!... Oh, that was added...." And you know, it was added...because it's one of the victories you must win. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/04/november-20-1963#p89</ref>
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The psychic being So to begin with one must have a great clear-sightedness to become aware that one is the representative of the Divine enclosed in all these knots which hold one in the human beingbondage...The Divine And then, when one is aware that there's something altogether tightly closed in there—so tightly that one has tried in you but you are not fully conscious vain to move it—then one imagines his will to be a very sharp sword-blade, and with all one's force one strikes a blow on this knot (imaginary, of it... it acts now as an influence rather than as course, one doesn't take up a sword in fact), and this produces a Presenceresult. It should be a conscious Presence; Of course you should be able at each moment to ask yourself what is... how... how can do this work from the psychological point of view, discovering all the elements constituting this knot, the Divine seeswhole set of resistances, habits, preferences, of all that holds you narrowly closed in. It is like that: first how the Divine seesSo when you grow aware of this, you can concentrate and then how call the Divine wills, divine Force and then how the Divine actsGrace and strike a good blow on this formation, these things so closely held, like that, that nothing can separate them. And it is not at that moment you must resolve that you will no longer listen to go away into inaccessible regionsthese things, it is right here. Onlythat you will listen only to the divine Consciousness and will do no other work except the divine work without worrying about personal results, free from all attachment, free from all preference, free from all wish for the momentsuccess, power, satisfaction, vanity, all the old habits and the general unconsciousness put a kind of covering which prevents us from seeing and feeling. You mustthis... All this must disappear and you must liftsee only the divine Will incarnated in your will and making you act. Then, in this way, you must lift that upare cured. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1206/83-februarynovember-19731954#p3p15</ref><center>~</center>
===Vigilance===
Higher Mind is one of the planes of the spiritual mind, the first and lowest of them; it is above the normal mental level. Inner mind is that which lies behind the surface mind (our ordinary mentality) and can only be directly experienced (apart from its vrittis in the surface mind such as philosophy, poetry, idealism etc.) by sadhana, by breaking down the habit of being on the surface and by going deeper within. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/classification-of-the-parts-of-the-being#p12</ref>
===Calling Upon the Psychic Guide Within===
The psychic being is the representative of the Divine in the human being...The Divine is in you but you are not fully conscious of it... it acts now as an influence rather than as a Presence. It should be a conscious Presence; you should be able at each moment to ask yourself what is... how... how the Divine sees. It is like that: first how the Divine sees, and then how the Divine wills, and then how the Divine acts. And it is not to go away into inaccessible regions, it is right here. Only, for the moment, all the old habits and the general unconsciousness put a kind of covering which prevents us from seeing and feeling. You must... you must lift, you must lift that up. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/8-february-1973#p3</ref>
===Surrender to Divine===