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Namah                                                         Insight





        projection on a large scale of the individual  charge is accurately measured according
        nature within.  What is there is here and what  to capacity. One can be indeed a roi fainéant,
        is not here is not found there. When we see  if one chooses to be so; but that is not man’s
        some wrong in the world, something that  inevitable destiny; he can truly be the ruling
        has got to be set right, instead of rushing  king and exercise, to the full, his authority.
        out and trying to tackle it in the external  It is a simple truth that man has a will and
        field, if one were to hold oneself back and  can wield it. This will he can consciously
        look within, one would surely find, perhaps  develop, increase and enlarge, make it
        to his surprise and enlightenment, a very  an extremely powerful, if not invincible,
        similar movement, often an exact replica  instrument for action.
        in one’s own consciousness and character
        of what one finds in the larger anonymous  Will is a twofold power: it is energy and
        movements of nature and society. Now it  it is light. True will, will in essential
        may be admitted that one has no control or  purity, that is to say, when one is perfectly
        almost none over one’s nature; the outside  sincere and determined to follow up
        world is beyond our reach and we cannot  one’s sincerity, impels rightly and impels
        order or mould it as we like.  But the smaller  infallibly. The consciousness is there of
        world which is ourselves is not too far or too  the right thing to do and the energy is
        great for us; our own individual nature and  also there inherent in that consciousness
        character is ours and we have been given  to work it out inevitably.  There is a will
        sufficient freedom and power to reform,  belonging to a lower level, to the mind
        renew and remake it. That is the secret,  which is only a variant of wish, and in
        although it seems to be a very simple truth,  reference to that only it is said that even
        almost a truism.                         if the spirit is willing, the flesh is weak.
                                                 This will is a light, but without the fire
        And if we cannot correct and mould as we  that vivifies: and that is because there is
        wish the little world within which is our own,  a division in the consciousness, “one can
        how can we expect to correct or change the  love and yet one can betray,” in the words
        vaster outer world?  To leave oneself to be  of a famous novelist.
        as one is and to try to make others change is
        evidently an absurd and self-contradictory  But as we have already said, man is not
        proposition. On the other hand, if the first  condemned to this malady of schizophrenia:
        thing that one does is to correct oneself, then  he is not by nature a Manichean creature.
        one will find, much to one’s surprise and  He is whole and entire in his inner reality
        satisfaction, that there is very little to correct  and true consciousness and he can assert his
        in the world, everything has been already  integrality, he has the freedom and the power
        corrected automatically.                 to do so — he has to and will do so, since it is
                                                 not merely a possibility but an inevitability
        Each man is given his little domain within  that is to come about in the course of his
        him and he is master of that domain.   growth and evolution.
        Nobody is given more (or less even) than
        what he can successfully manage: the  And when he has done so, when he has


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