november23

The mind can and must transform

itself. It can get rid of the impurities

that contaminate it, and rise to the

highest level. We all start off with the

same capacities, but some people

develop them, and others don’t. We get

very easily used to the mind’s laziness,

all the more easily because laziness

hides beneath the appearance of

activity: we run right and left, we make

calculations and phone calls. But these

activities engage only the most

elementary and coarse levels of the

mind. They hide the essential from us.