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== Evolution and Self-Observation ==
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Man is a type among many types so constructed, one pattern among the multitude of patterns in the manifestation in Matter. He is the most complex that has been created, the richest in content of consciousness and the curious ingeniousness of his building; he is the head of the earthly creation, but he does not exceed it…. If there is a perfection to which he has to arrive, it must be a perfection in his own kind, within his own law of being,—the full play of it, but by observation of its mode and measure, not by transcendence. To exceed himself, to grow into the superman, to put on the nature and capacities of a god would be a contradiction of his self-law, impracticable and impossible</div><div style="color:#0066cc;"><uspan><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/man-and-the-evolution#p8</ref></u></div>
<div span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In the animal mind is not quite distinct from its own life-matrix and life-matter; its movements are so involved in the life movements that it cannot detach itself from them, cannot stand separate and observe them; but in man mind has become separate, he can become aware of his mental operations as distinct from his life operations, his thought and will can disengage them selves from his sensations and impulses, desires and emotional reactions, can become detached from them, observe and control them, sanction or cancel their functioning: he does not as yet know the secrets of his being well enough to be aware of himself decisively and with certitude as a mental being in a life and body, but he has that impression and can take inwardly that position.</div><div style="color:#0066cc;"><uspan><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-evolution-of-the-spiritual-man#p6</ref></u></div>
== Chitta and Self-Observation ==
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