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caught hold of her!
Gurdjieff would always give just the opposite. To somebody who likes physical exercise very much, goes for a morning walk, evening walk, horse-riding, this and that, Gurdjieff would say to just sit silently and not to do anything. He would feel restless and would boil inside.
But this is the way the mind and you become loose.
When you don't listen to the mind, a distance arises. So learn this one thing from this experience -- don't decide in a hurry.
Sometimes you don't like a woman and she may prove the best companion. Sometimes you like the woman at the first sight -- you 'fall in love' as it is said -- and she may prove the worst enemy to you. That's how it is happening all over the world: people fall in love at first sight and then they suffer their whole life. Because this is decided by the mind... and the mind is blind!
The mind has no awareness. Awareness is a totally different thing, far away from mind, and awareness becomes available only when the mind is no more making its chattering, its noise, so you can hear the still, small voice, from somewhere beyond the mind.
Keep it as a key, and sometimes go on trying something against the mind. Enjoy it, and you will be benefited tremendously.
[A sannyasin asks: I feel a little confused about what I call the will and surrender. It is something very difficult for me to find the right attitude towards surrendering.]
Don't make a problem out of it. Surrendering is really nothing against the will. The moment you start thinking that surrendering is against the will, it looks like a problem.
Surrendering is not against the will at all -- in fact it is a flowering of the will, it is the culmination of the will. Only a person who has tremendous will can surrender. A weak person cannot surrender. A weak person may say that he has surrendered, but he has nothing to surrender. He is hiding his impotence behind a beautiful word -- surrender is a beautiful word, and you can hide behind it. But he has nothing to surrender! What will you surrender if you don't have the will?
So to me, surrender and will are not opposites. Surrender is
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