And the acceptance of illness is the acceptance of the usual end, which is generally called "death" (that doesn't mean anything), but anyway, it means that the aggregate is unable to be transformed and is dissolved. These are things [those "seconds"] that happen very often, and without any relationship whatever to outer circumstances. Which means that if one were all alone - all alone, still, in meditation - it would be more radical and definitive. But it's mixed in with the movement of life, outer circumstances, and those outer circumstances make it necessary that it should go more or less unnoticed. So the result is less complete, only partial, and so it recurs again and again, it's repeated.... It stretches over a considerable time. (silence) All this has a meaning, really a meaning, only if we reach the end. The end is consciousness reassuming its power. But even if the effect isn't total or general, I mean for the whole earth, even on one point it will still have tre-men-dous effect. There, we must be patient.page 64 , Mother's Agenda , volume 8 , 25th Feb - 1967 |