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The Principles
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| Different is the attitude toward life and things when inner revelation
strikes like lightning. |
| Following the steps slowly, meditating on what
has been said and what has yet to be said, you may convert the non-meaning
into meaning. |
| It is not indifferent what you do with your life. Your life, subject to
laws, is open to possibilities among which you can choose. |
I do not speak to you of liberty. I speak to you of liberation, of movement,
of process. I do not speak to you of liberty as something static, but of
liberating yourself step by step, as those who approach their city become
liberated from the road already travelled. Thus, what-one-must-do does not
depend upon distant, incomprehensible, and conventional morals, but upon
laws: laws of life, of light, of evolution. |
| Here are the aforementioned "Principles"
that can help you in your search for internal unity: |
| 1. To go against the evolution of things is to go against yourself. |
| 2. When you force something toward an end, you produce the contrary. |
| 3. Do not oppose a great force. Retreat until it weakens, then advance
with resolution. |
| 4. Things are well when they move together, not in isolation. |
| 5. If day and night, summer and winter are well with you, you have surpassed
the contradictions. |
| 6. If you pursue pleasure, you enchain yourself to suffering. But as long
as you do not harm your health, enjoy without inhibition when the opportunity
presents itself. |
| 7. If you pursue an end, you enchain yourself. If everything you do is
realized as though it were an end in itself, you liberate yourself. |
| 8. You will make your conflicts disappear when you understand them in
their ultimate root, not when you want to resolve them. |
| 9. When you harm others you remain enchained, but if you do not harm anyone
you can freely do whatever you want. |
| 10. When you treat others as you want them to treat you, you liberate
yourself. |
| 11. It does not matter in which faction events have placed you. What matters
is that you comprehend that you have not chosen any faction. |
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12. Contradictory or unifying actions accumulate within
you. If you repeat your acts of internal unity, nothing can detain you.
You will be like a force of Nature when it finds no resistance in its
path. Learn to distinguish a difficulty, a problem, an obstacle, from
a contradiction. While those may move you or spur you on, contradiction
traps you in a closed circle with no way out.
Whenever you find great strength, joy, and kindness in your heart, or
when you feel free and without contradictions, immediately be internally
thankful. When you find yourself in opposite circumstances, ask with faith,
and the gratitude you have accumulated will return to you transformed
and amplified in benefit.
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