<ref>The Mother. (2003). Early talks. In Words of the mother I.
http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/early-talks#p108</ref>
= How to Overcome the Barriers? =
They sense their limitation and think that in order to grow, increase and even survive, they need to take things from outside, for they live in the consciousness of their personal limitation. So, for them, what they give makes a hole and this hole must be filled up by receiving something!... Naturally, this is a mistake. And the truth is that if instead of being shut up in the narrow limits of their little person, they could so widen their consciousness as to be able not only to identify themselves with others in their narrow limits, but to come out of these limits, pass beyond, spread out everywhere, unite with the one Consciousness and become all things, then, at that moment the narrow limits will vanish, but not before. And as long as one senses the narrow limits, one wants to take, for one fears to lose. One spends and wants to replenish. It is due to that, my child. For if one were spread out in all things, if all the vibrations which come and go expressed the need to merge into everything, to widen oneself, grow, not by remaining within one's limits but coming out of them, and finally to be identified with everything, one would no longer have anything to lose for one would have everything.
(The Mother, 19 August 1953)
<ref>The Mother. (1998). 19 August 1953. In Questions and answers (1953).
http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/19-august-1953#p27</ref>
For example, when you have a small narrow vision of something and are hurt by others' vision and point of view, you must begin by shifting your consciousness, try to put it in others, and try gradually to identify yourself with all the different ways of thinking of all others.
(The Mother, 29 September 1954)
<ref>The Mother. (2003). 29 September 1954. In Questions and answers (1954).
http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/29-september-1954#p37</ref>
''"What do you mean by these words: 'When you are in difficulty, widen yourself'?"''
I am speaking, of course, of difficulties on the path of yoga, incomprehension, limitations, things like obstacles, which prevent you from advancing. And when I say "widen yourself", I mean widen your consciousness.
(The Mother, 29 August 1956)
<ref>The Mother. (2003). 29 August 1956. In Questions and answers (1956).
http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/29-august-1956#p30</ref>
Easily we feel attracted towards people who bring a reinforcement to our nervous envelope; we are repelled by those who disturb or hurt it. Whatever gives it a sense of expansion and comfort and ease, whatever makes it respond with a feeling of happiness and pleasure exercises on us at once an attraction; when the effect is in the contrary sense, it responds with a protecting repulsion.
(The Mother, 16 June 1929)
<ref>The Mother. (2002). 16 June 1929. In Questions and answers(1929-1931).
http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p12</ref>
You must widen your consciousness and understand that everyone has his own law. It is necessary to find the ground of understanding and harmony in a happy combination of individual wills and not to try that all may be the same in an identical will and action.
(The Mother, January 1931)
<ref>The Mother. (2003). Narrowness and one-sidedness. In Words of the mother II.
http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/narrowness-and-one-sidedness#p2</ref>
= Recommended Practices =