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meets someone who shows a special talent or acts in an exceptional and beautiful way, there
is a kind of enthusiasm or admiration or gratitude which suddenly awakens in the being
and opens the door to a state, a new state of consciousness, a light, a warmth, a joy one did
not know before. That too is a way of catching the guiding thread. There are a thousand
ways, one has only to be awake and to watch.
First of all, you must feel the necessity for this change of consciousness, accept the idea that
it is this, the path which must lead to the goal; and once you admit the principle, you must
be watchful. And you will find, you do find it. And once you have found it, you must start
walking without any hesitation.
Indeed, the starting-point is to observe oneself, not to live in a perpetual nonchalance, a
perpetual apathy; one must be attentive.
— The Mother*
* The Mother. The Collected Works of the Mother, Volume 8. Cent ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
Ashram Trust; 1977, pp. 402-05.
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