1627- Perpetual anxiety on account of Uncertainty!

The animal lives spontaneously, automatically, and if it watches itself live, it must be to a very minute and insignificant degree, and that is why it is peaceful and does not worry. 

With man there has begun this perpetual worrying about what is going to happen, and this worry is the principal, if not the sole cause of his torment. Man is too conscious to be indifferent, he is not conscious enough to know what will happen. Truly it could be said without fear of making a mistake - that of all earth's creatures he is the most miserable.

Of course it is impossible for man to fall back to the level of the animal and lose the consciousness he has acquired; therefore there is only one means, one way to get out of this condition he is in, which I call a miserable one, and to emerge into a higher state where worry is replaced by a trusting surrender and the certitude of a luminous culmination - this way is to change the consciousness.

And that is why all spiritual disciplines begin with the necessity of surrendering all responsibility and relying on a higher principle. Otherwise peace is impossible.

And yet, consciousness has been given to man so that he can progress, can discover what he doesn't know, develop into what he has not yet become; and so it may be said that there is a higher state than that of an immobile and static peace: it is a trust total enough for one to keep the will to progress, to preserve the effort for progress while ridding it of all anxiety, all care for results and consequences.

Collected Works of Mother
Volume 9