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Pressure of the Social Mass
There is continually a danger that the exaggerated pressure of the social mass by its heavy unenlightened mechanical weight may suppress or unduly discourage the free development of the individual spirit. F For man in the individual can be more easily enlightened, conscious, open to clear influences; man in the mass is still obscure, half-conscious, ruled by universal forces that escape its mastery and its knowledge. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/standards-of-conduct-and-spiritual- freedom#p15</ref>
Internal Challenges are posed by the difficulties in the planes of the being -- mind, vital and physical.
It is no more proper for the mental being to be the tennis ball of unruly and uncontrollable thoughts than to be a rudderless ship in the storm of the desires and passions or a slave of either the inertia or the impulses of the body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in /cwsa/31/thought-and-knowledge#p8</ref>
To choose without preference and execute without desire is the great difficulty at the very root of the development of true consciousness and self-control. et Yet one must learn to act without any preference, free from all attractions and likings, taking one's stand solely on the Truth which guides.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/21- december-1950#p6</ref>
The physical is the slave of certain forces which create a habit and drive it through the mechanical force of the habit. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical- nature#p80</ref>
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