Your Greatest Weakness Identifies Your Greatest Strength

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A particular propensity arises
through Affinity with an

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energetic flow through a
particular Energy Center, where

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chakra, if the individual is
receptive on that level, he is

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able to manifest the powers that
are at play through that chakra

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Center.
At the same time it must be

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recognized that a propensity for
the opposite also is tied to the

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same chakra.
As the individual Works to

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develop the positive aspect, he
frequently finds that he has

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oppressed by the exact opposite
of what He is wanting and trying

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to achieve.
It can be a matter for

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depression or the seeker.
Can appreciate that.

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This opposite propensity can be
a means to focus and spur

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progress in the development of
the needed result.

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It is possible for the secret of
recognize, the focus or mission

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for his sadhna by observing
those areas that represent the

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most difficult and trying of the
actions and reactions.

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He is able to observe within
himself.

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If he is troubled by uprising of
anger, he can see that he needs

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to work on peace, compassion,
understanding, and otherwise

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diffuse the propensity to anger
by working through those issue.

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He eventually makes the needed
progress and finds that both the

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negative aspect has receded, and
the positive attribute has been

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greatly enhanced.
There is a motto that says What

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does not kill?
You makes you stronger.

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While there are of course limits
to the application of this

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motto.
It does contain a kernel of

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Truth in that resistance
strengthens the muscles such as

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with physical muscles, develop
through the resistance of

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gravity and the practice of
weight lifting or through use of

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various tension, resistance
bands, to develop the

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musculature. the same principle
applies to the metaphorical

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muscles of the vital nature, the
emotional nature or the mental

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nature, Through meeting and
overcoming resistance with

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steady focus and application.
Each of these aspects can be

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strengthened and developed.
The mother writes quote, what is

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the meaning of this?
Self-contradiction this division

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in man to understand that we
must know and remember that each

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person represents a certain
quality or capacity a particular

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achievement to be embodied, how
best can it be done?

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What is the way by?
Which one can acquire a quality

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at its purest, highest and most
perfect.

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It Is by setting an opposition
to it.

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That is how a power is increased
in strengthened, by fighting

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against an overcoming.
All that weakens and contradicts

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it.
The deficiencies with respect to

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a particular quality show you
where you have to mend and

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reinforce it and in what way to
improve it in order to make it

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perfectly perfect.
It is the hammer that beats the

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weak and soft iron to Permit
into hard steel.

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The preliminary Discord is
useful and needs to be utilized

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for a higher Harmony.
This is the secret of self

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conflict in man, you are weakest
precisely in that element, which

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is destined to be your greatest
asset and quote reference SRI

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aurobindo and the mother growing
within the psychology of inner

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development.
Chapter 8, the psychic Being and

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inner growth pages, 151 to 152.
Being and inner growth pages,

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151 to 152.