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Man Is More Miserable, More Restless And Unsatisfied Than Ever Before, Simply Because Half His Nature--the Spiritual--is Starving For True Food, And The Other Half--the Material--is Fed With Bad Food.

While The Mind Remains So Fixed In Its Own Personal Affairs, Be They Little Or Large, It Has No Chance To Open Up Its Higher Levels. When Attention And Emotion Are Kept So Confined, The Chance They Offer Of This Higher Use Is Missed. The Peace, Truth, And Goodness Which Could Be Had Are Untouched.

It Is A Grave Misconception To Regard The Mystical Progress As Passing Mostly Through Ecstasies And Raptures. On The Contrary, It Passes Just As Much Through Broken Hearts And Bruised Emotions, Through Painful Sacrifices And Melancholy Renunciations.

Outwardly One's Life May Suffer Every Kind Of Limitation, From Bodily Paralysis To Miserable Surroundings, But Inwardly It Is Free In Meditation To Reach Out To A Sphere Of Light, Beauty, Truth, Love, And Power.

The Source Of Wisdom And Power, Of Love And Beauty, Is Within Ourselves, But Not Within Our Egos. It Is Within Our Consciousness. Indeed, Its Presence Provides Us With A Conscious Contrast Which Enables Us To Speak Of The Ego As If It Were Something Different And Apart: It Is The True Self Whereas The Ego Is Only An Illusion Of The Mind.