Nothing, of
course, can be accomplished without a fight. Life itself is a struggle, and
each of us enters it daily. It is simply a question of where to expend the
effort: pursuing the material wraiths of the physical world that constantly seem
to elude us or concentrate on an inner resource that controls the outer world.
It is a wise man who expends his energies developing his consciousness. He
shortly will find that all the aspects of the world have assumed an order and a
benignity he would not have thought possible. All things appear to do his
bidding, not because he truly bids them, but because he understands them. It is
this knowledge, attained by inner perception, of the potentiality of each thing
and circumstance that leads to beneficent power that allows a man to move
through the most intense conflicts with serenity and surety. He sees the thing
to be done because he knows the outcome that must be achieved, and because of
this inherent perception of the laws of life and nature, he appears to be
modeling each event, shaping each thing, yet it is not he who does this but the
Secret Self within him, to which he has entrusted himself completely and which
guides his steps and actions with omnipotent assurance. Will you have the power
and assurance and serenity of the Secret Self? Then there is something you must
give up. You must give up the ego, that thing within you that you always have
thought to be your very self. You must seek to shed that sense of separateness that
is a product of your surface mind and to search deep within your consciousness
for the pure core of being that is the self of all things. It will not be easy.
The sensual
nature with its constantly distracting stimuli brings daily clarion calls from
the outer world. But if your life has provided you full measure of pain and
frustration from chasing these tempters and deceivers, then you will face them
with resistance and resolve to pursue them no more. The path to power lies
within you. All things will be found there. The fight is not between the world
and you, but between your ego and your true self. Simply choose to find your
true self, and in the end you cannot lose.
When the fight begins within himself,
A man’s worth something.
—Robert
Browning
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