Enthusiasm and gratitude:
The surest links to the psychic being

By the Mother (Mother reads from "Self-Consecration," The Synthesis of Yoga): Here it is written: "Our one objective must be the Divine himself to whom, knowingly or unknowingly, something always aspires in our secret nature." What is this something which aspires, Sweet Mother? t is a part of the being which is not always the same in everyone, and which is instinctively open to the influence of the psychic. There is always one part -- sometimes indeed quite veiled, of which we are not conscious -- something in the being which is turned to the psychic and receiving its influence. This is the intermediary between the psychic consciousness and the external consciousness. It is not the same thing in everyone; in each one it is different. It is the point in his nature or character through which he can touch the psychic and where he can receive the psychic influence. It depends upon people; for each one it is different; everyone has a point like this. You may also feel that there are certain things which suddenly push you, lift you above yourself, open a kind of door upon something greater. It can be many things; and it depends upon each one's nature. It's the part of the being which enthuses over something; it is this capacity for enthusiasm. here are two principal things. This, the capacity for enthusiasm which makes one come out of his greater or lesser inertia in order to throw himself more or less totally into the thing which rouses him. As for instance, the artist for his art, the scientist for his science. And in general, every person who creates or builds has an opening, the opening of a special faculty, a special possibility, creating an enthusiasm in him. When this is active, something in the being awakens, and there is a participation of almost the whole being in the thing done. There is this. And then there are those who have an innate faculty of gratitude, those who have an ardent need to respond, respond with warmth, devotion, joy, to something which they feel like a marvel hidden behind the whole of life, behind the tiniest little element, the least little event of life, who feel this sovereign beauty or infinite Grace which is behind all things. I knew people who had no knowledge, so to say, of anything, who were hardly educated, whose minds were altogether of ordinary kind, and who had in them this capacity of gratitude, of warmth, which gives itself, understands and is thankful. Well, for them, the contact with the psychic was very frequent, almost constant and, to the extent that they were capable of it, conscious -- not very conscious but a little -- in the sense that they felt that they were carried, helped, uplifted above themselves. These two things prepare people the most. They are born with one or the other; and if they take the trouble, it develops gradually, it increases. We say: the capacity for enthusiasm, something which throws you out of your miserable and mean little ego; and the generous gratitude, the generosity of the gratitude which also flings itself in thanksgiving out of the little ego. These are the two most powerful levers to enter into contact with the Divine in one's psychic being. This serves as a link with the psychic being -- the surest link.

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