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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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