Separating the Shadow from the Light in One’s Being

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When we look around and see the
challenges facing us on the

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planet, our first impulse is
generally to try to find some

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kind of fix to the situation.
This generally takes the form of

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suggesting that our current
economic or political system or

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model is defective deficient or
broken.

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And thus, we need to either
update it or switch to a

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different one.
In some cases, those who have

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adopted a particular religious
conviction, believe that by

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making everyone else believe, as
they do will cure things.

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Thus there, may enter a
missionary element to convert

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others.
Some believe that there are

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simply Bad actors out in the
world and they need to be

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controlled or eliminated.
Thus, we have a retributive

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penal system or the use of
heavy-handed policing or on the

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international level, the use of
warfare to advance one's

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prescription for change needed
in the world.

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Some believe that education or
re-education will solve the

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problem.
At the end of the day, we

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eventually see that none of
these Solutions has actually

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succeeded then we look at
whether we can escape the planet

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and begin interplanetary
colonization with the idea that

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we can solve our problems by
simply leaving them behind What

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is not recognized generally?
Is that the problems we identify

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outside?
Ourselves are reflections of our

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own basic human nature and that
all the outer changes of form

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whether of political
institutions, economic models,

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or religious preferences will
accomplish nothing without an

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interchange that recognizes and
changes the basics of what we

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call human nature, which is
abundant I love habits

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conventions and preconceived
ideas that we believe are fixed

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and immutable.
When we turn our attention from

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outer space, to Inner Space, we
begin to recognize that we carry

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all the problems of humanity
within ourselves the capacity

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for greed the feelings of Desire
or lust the drive toward anger,

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rage and hatred.
These all remain latent within

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each individual waiting only for
an opportunity to break forth

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and manifest.
Despite the refrain that human

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nature, cannot be changed.
There is evidence to the

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contrary.
Techniques have been developed

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to break addictions or habits.
There are innumerable examples

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of individuals who have made
extraordinary changes in their

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ways of seeing and acting and
the actions, they undertake in

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their lives.
We describe the butterfly effect

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that shows that even small
changes can have repercussions

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and effects far beyond the
ostensibly initial action.

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And we have documented, what is
called the hundredth monkey

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phenomenon that shows that a new
capacity, skill or power becomes

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available to a wider population.
When a specific threshold of

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knowing individuals has been
reached If we begin to apply

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this information
synergistically, we find that

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the exploration of Inner Space,
the development of the

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standpoint of the witness of
One's Own nature, and then the

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subsequent implementation of
systematic changes, not only can

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change our own nature, but has
its natural consequences in the

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world.
And in the development of new

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forms and powers of human
nature, who is to say which

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individual is two hundredth
monkey in Humanities

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transformation.
The mother notes, quote, and

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this is something an experience
that one can have daily or

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almost when one has those
movements of great enthusiasm

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great aspiration.
When Once suddenly becomes

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conscious of the Divine goal,
the urge towards the Divine, the

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desire to take part in the
Divine work.

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When one comes out of oneself in
a great joy and great force, And

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then, a few hours later, one is
miserable for a tiny little

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thing.
One indulges in so petty, so

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narrow, so commonplace a
self-interested, Ennis has such

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a dull desire and all the rest
has evaporated, as if it did not

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exist.
One is quite accustomed to

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contradictions.
One doesn't pay attention to

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this, and that is why all these
things live comfortably

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together?
As neighbors, one must first,

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discover them and prevent them
from intermingling, in one's

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Consciousness, decide between
them separate the Shadow from

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the light.
Later one can get rid of the

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Shadow and quote, reference SRI
aurobindo, and the mother living

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within the yoga approach to
psychological health of growth

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exercises for growth and Mastery
becoming aware of the Shadow

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