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<ref>The Mother. (1998). 12 August 1953. In Questions and answers (1953).
http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/12-august-1953#p11</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>
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>
== Unfolding Yourself ==