Very interesting people usually are not bored.

Sweet Mother, why do men take pleasure in making a

lot of noise?

In making a noise? Because they like to deaden themselves. In

silence they have to face their own difficulties, they are in front

of themselves, and usually they don’t like that. In the noise they

forget everything, they become stupefied. So they are happy.

Constantly man rushes into external action in order not to

have time to observe himself and how he lives. For him this is

expressed by the desire to escape from boredom. Indeed, for

some people it is much more tiresome to remain quiet—seated,

or to be still. So for them it represents an escape from boredom:

to make a lot of noise, to commit many stupidities, and become

terribly restless; it is their way of escaping boredom. And when

they sit quietly and look at themselves, they are bored. Perhaps

because they are boring. That’s very likely. The more boring one

is, the more one is bored. Very interesting people usually are not

bored.

Assimilation

Why does the body get tired? We have more or less
regular activities, but one day we are full of energy and
the next day we are quite tired.

Generally this comes from a kind of inner disequilibrium. There
may be many reasons for it, but it all comes to this: a sort of
disequilibrium between the different parts of the being. Now, it
is also possible that the day one had the energy, one spent it too
much, though this is not the case with children; children spend
it until they can no longer do so. One sees a child active till
the moment he suddenly falls fast asleep. He was there, moving,
running; and then, all of a sudden, pluff! finished, he is asleep.
And it is in this way that he grows up, becomes stronger and
stronger. Consequently, it is not the spending that harms you.
The expenditure is made up by the necessary rest—that is set
right very well. No, it is a disequilibrium: the harmony between
the different parts of the being is no longer sufficient.

People think they have only to continue doing for ever what
they were doing or at least remain in the same state of consciousness,
day after day do their little work, and all will go
well. But it is not like that. Suddenly, for some reason or other,
one part of the being—either your feelings or your thoughts
or your vital—makes progress, has discovered something, received
a light, progressed. It takes a leap in progress. All the
rest remains behind. This brings about a disequilibrium. That is
enough to make you very tired. But in fact, it is not tiredness: it is
something which makes you want to keep quiet, to concentrate,
remain within yourself, be like that, and build up slowly a new
harmony among the different parts of the being. And it is very
necessary to have, at a given moment, a sort of rest, for an
assimilation of what one has learnt and a harmonisation of the
different parts of the being.

Why does the body get tired?

Why does the body get tired? We have more or less

regular activities, but one day we are full of energy and

the next day we are quite tired.

Generally this comes from a kind of inner disequilibrium. There

may be many reasons for it, but it all comes to this: a sort of

disequilibrium between the different parts of the being. Now, it

is also possible that the day one had the energy, one spent it too

much, though this is not the case with children; children spend

it until they can no longer do so. One sees a child active till

the moment he suddenly falls fast asleep. He was there, moving,

running; and then, all of a sudden, pluff! finished, he is asleep.

And it is in this way that he grows up, becomes stronger and

stronger. Consequently, it is not the spending that harms you.

The expenditure is made up by the necessary rest—that is set

right very well. No, it is a disequilibrium: the harmony between

the different parts of the being is no longer sufficient.

People think they have only to continue doing for ever what

they were doing or at least remain in the same state of consciousness,

day after day do their little work, and all will go

well. But it is not like that. Suddenly, for some reason or other,

one part of the being—either your feelings or your thoughts

or your vital—makes progress, has discovered something, received

a light, progressed. It takes a leap in progress. All the

rest remains behind. This brings about a disequilibrium. That is

enough to make you very tired. But in fact, it is not tiredness: it is

something which makes you want to keep quiet, to concentrate,

remain within yourself, be like that, and build up slowly a new

harmony among the different parts of the being. And it is very

necessary to have, at a given moment, a sort of rest, for an

assimilation of what one has learnt and a harmonisation of the

different parts of the being.

It is not the love that someone feels for you that can make you happy,
it is the love you feel for others that makes you happy:
for you receive the love that you give from the Divine,
who loves eternally and unfailingly.
The Mother -- 14:p.129