– In ordinary life one says: "It is circumstances, it is fate, it is my bad luck, it is their fault," or else, "I have no luck." That is very, very, very convenient. One veils everything and expects,… yes, one has happy moments and then bad ones, and finally, ah, well, finally one falls into a hole, for everybody tumbles over, and expects to, sooner or later. So, one does not worry, or worries all the time which comes to the same thing. That is, one is unconscious, one lives unconsciously and puts all the blame for what happens on others and on the circumstances but never tells oneself: "Why! it is my own fault." … It needs a sufficiently vast consciousness to begin. Even among those who profess to be conscious, there are not many who see clearly enough to become aware that all that happens to them comes from what they are and from nothing else. They always say: "He is wrong; circumstances are unfavourable: oh! why was that done?" – If you were not what you are, it would not happen in this way. It would happen differently.
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