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You have said: “If you surrender you have to give up effort, but that does not mean that you have to abandon also all willed action.” – Questions and Answers 1929 – 1931 (21 April 1929)

But if one wants to do something, it means personal effort, doesn’t it? What then is the will?

There is a difference between the will and this feeling of tension, effort, of counting only on oneself, having recourse to oneself alone which personal effort means; this kind of tension, of something very acute and at times very painful; you count only on yourself and you have the feeling that if you do not make an effort every minute, all will be lost. That is personal effort.

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