The Way of Repulsion and the Way of Attraction in the Path of Inner Growth

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What makes us move in One
Direction or another?

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How do we choose, decide, set
forth in One Direction as

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opposed to another?
There's the inner readiness that

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creates a sense of
incompleteness, dissatisfaction,

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or a view of something better,
more perfect, more beautiful,

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more essential than what we
experience now.

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We move generally first through
the force of repulsion.

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We become dissatisfied, unable
to accept our lives the way they

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are.
We may be discouraged,

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depressed, isolated, or lonely,
and we determine that we have to

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escape this life and try
something new, go someplace

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else, learn some new skill, or
otherwise make a change in our

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lives.
This we may call the negative

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impetus to change, as it stems
from a repulsion from what is

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our current situation, either
individually or in the world

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around us.
This path generally starts from

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an exercise of our vital force,
our willpower, and our effort to

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change.
This path may involve active

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rejection, opposition, and a
struggle to rid ourselves of the

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vestiges of the past that
represent the old ways.

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There is also the positive
approach, the way of attraction.

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We experience something which
shows us that there is a way of

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beauty, harmony, goodness filled
with life and joy and growth,

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and we yearn to reach that and
establish it in our lives.

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Devotion, love, consecration all
develop from the path of

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attraction.
This path also leads to

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abandonment of the status quo,
but not through a sense of

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rejection or act of
renunciation, but through a

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natural change of focus based on
a new, all attractive goal we

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see in front of us.
Whichever force moves us first,

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eventually they can reach the
same end point.

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The old ways that bind humanity
down to habits and restrictions

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that hold us back are left
behind, and we take up a new

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life.
In doing so, we can observe the

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interchanges in our way of
seeing the world, evaluating our

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lives, and framing our actions.
Once we start on the path, the

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main factor becomes how
effectively and completely we

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can concentrate the focus, and
how consistently and patiently

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we continue that focus without
distraction.

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The mother notes quote at the
basis of this collaboration.

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There is necessarily the will to
change, no longer to be what one

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is, for things to be no longer
what they are.

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There are several ways of
reaching it, and all the methods

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are good when they succeed.
One may be deeply disgusted with

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what exists and wish ardently to
come out of all this and attain

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something else.
One may, and this is a more

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positive way, one may feel
within oneself the touch, the

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approach of something positively
beautiful and true, and

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willingly drop all the rest so
that nothing may burden the

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journey to this new beauty and
truth.

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What is indispensable in every
case is the ardent will for

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progress, the willing and joyful
renunciation of all that hampers

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the advance, to throw far away
from oneself all that prevents

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one from going forward, and to
set out into the unknown with

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the ardent faith that this is
the truth of tomorrow,

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inevitable, which must
necessarily come.

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Which nothing, nobody, no bad
will, even that of nature, can

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prevent from becoming a reality,
perhaps of a not too distant

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future.
A reality which is being worked

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out now, and which those who
know how to change, how not to

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be weighed down by old habits,
will surely have the good

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fortune not only to see, but to
realize.

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End Quote.
Reference Sri Auro Bindo and the

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Mother, The Hidden Forces of
Life, Chapter 6.

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Hidden Worlds and Evolutionary
Forces, pages 155 to 156.