The only somewhat new thing is that the body is beginning to be a bit … restless <\/i>at its decay. Before, it didn’t bother about it, it didn’t give it any thought; it knew it was going on, but … Now, it’s beginning to be bothered. So perhaps it’s a sign, I don’t know? It’s beginning to be bothered – not psychologically, but like this: when it receives a Command to do something and there is, not exactly an incapacity, but a limitation to the possibility, that starts its unhappiness. So I wondered …
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Then at night it’s the same thing, it says, “Why such a whole long period of diminishing consciousness?”<\/p>\n
Diminishing?<\/i><\/p>\n
You understand, it’s happy and in what it regards as its normal state only when it’s fully conscious of and vibrating with the Presence. But in the night’s activities … (how can I explain?) it’s becoming more … more like something one is used to, you know, like a habit (gesture of a wave flowing); <\/i>there’s no longer the joy of a vibrating observation, but a normal state of things, and it’s not happy with that: it wants the same intensity (vibrating gesture) <\/i>to be there at night. For instance, it doesn’t tolerate the idea of fatigue, of the necessity of rest (although that never arises from the inconscient
\nany longer), but rest as a sort of turning in on oneself, like that, to repair
\nwear and tear – it doesn’t like that: there must be no wear and tear, there must
\nbe a constant adaptation to anything asked of it. Later, it will probably not
\neven accept effort
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\nof conscious receptivity that enables it to do things; and there are constant
\nexamples to show that if this receptivity isn’t there, well, there’s an awkward
\nmovement, or an impossibility, things like that, but it … in the past, it used
\nto feel that was unavoidable, but now it no longer wants it. Now it no longer
\nwants it: things must not be like that. For example, to put something away or
\nfind it or do something, it sometimes feels a sense of difficulty (it’s never
\nquite impossible because nothing is asked of it which is impossible), but at
\ntimes it’s difficult – and a sense of displeasure comes over it. It feels that
\nas an infirmity, as a lack of receptivity, you understand. Also the fact that it
\nhas become stooped: in the past it would say, "It’ll get corrected"; now it’s
\nbeginning to lose patience. That’s quite new. It began on November 24. Because
\nit’s not a selfish turning in on itself, it’s not that, it’s not for itself,
\nit’s … the sense of a lack of receptivity to the Force, of limitation arising
\nfrom incapacity – it doesn’t like that anymore.
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