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Or else, one may have an experience which is almost its very opposite but which comes
to the same thing. Suddenly one plunges into a depth, one moves away from the thing
one perceived, it seems distant, superficial, unimportant; one enters an inner silence or an
inner calm or an inward vision of things, a profound feeling, a more intimate perception of
circumstances and things, in which all values change. And one becomes aware of a sort of
unity, a deep identity which is one in spite of the diverse appearances.

Or else, suddenly also, the sense of limitation disappears and one enters the perception of
a kind of indefinite duration beginningless and endless, of something which has always
been and always will be.

These experiences come to you suddenly in a flash, for a second, a moment in your life,
you don’t know why or how....

There are other ways, other experiences — they are innumerable, they vary according to
people; but with this, with one minute, one second of such an existence, one catches the tail
of the thing. So one must remember that, try to relive it, go to the depths of the experience,
recall it, aspire, concentrate. This is the starting-point, the end of the guiding thread, the clue.
For all those who are destined to find their inner being, the truth of their being, there is always
at least one moment in life when they were no longer the same, perhaps just like a lightning-
flash — but that is enough. It indicates the road one should take, it is the door that opens on
this path. And so you must pass through the door, and with perseverance and an unfailing
steadfastness seek to renew the state which will lead you to something more real and more total.

Many ways have always been given, but a way you have been taught, a way you have read
about in books or heard from a teacher, does not have the effective value of a spontaneous
experience which has come without any apparent reason, and which is simply the blossoming
of the soul’s awakening, one second of contact with your psychic being which shows you
the best way for you, the one most within your reach, which you will then have to follow
with perseverance to reach the goal — one second which shows you how to start, the
beginning.... Some have this in dreams at night; some have it at any odd time: something
one sees which awakens in one this new consciousness, something one hears, a beautiful
landscape, beautiful music, or else simply a few words one reads, or else the intensity of
concentration in some effort — anything at all, there are a thousand reasons and thousands
of ways of having it. But, I repeat, all those who are destined to realise have had this at least
once in their life. It may be very fleeting, it may have come when they were very young,
but always at least once in one’s life one has the experience of what true consciousness is.
Well, that is the best indication of the path to be followed.

One may seek within oneself, one may remember, may observe; one must notice what is
going on, one must pay attention, that’s all. Sometimes, when one sees a generous act, hears
of something exceptional, when one witnesses heroism or generosity or greatness of soul,

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