Life is a question of choice, choices made upon earth, choices made in other worlds, each expressing its form, its type of life. One has chosen to be so, one believes that one is submitted to a fatality or to a necessity or to a law which now compels one. But it also give a tremendous power. In it disappears this concrete and brutal reality of the physical life. The Mother says, “the state in which one finds oneself has been the fact of a choice, and for the individual the freedom of choice is there, and people have forgotten it. It is this that is so interesting.” If one becomes master, one can change all the circumstances around oneself. There is a difficulty with the body. When all that surrounds it, they are elements that come and must be transformed. The body aspires above all for a harmony, because of all these things that grind and scrape. If there is disorder, that comes “to make the transition from ordinary automatic functioning to conscious functioning under the direct guidance and the direct influence of the Supreme. And the body itself knows it”. Everything is a question of changing the habit. Death itself is a habit, and habits can be changed, “changed into a conscious action directly guided by the supreme Consciousness. ... It is very evident—it is very evident—that one is placed in the best of conditions and has the maximum possibilities for action... when one wants it sincerely.”

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