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==For Building Resilience==
A perfect spiritual equanimity throughout the being is a sure defence against all the perturbations that might come through the environmental nature.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/equality-the-chief-support#p26</ref>
<center>~</center> The inner spiritual progress does not depend on outer conditions so much as on the way we react to them from within—that has always been the ultimate verdict of spiritual experience. It is why we insist on taking the right attitude and persisting in it, on an inner state not dependent on outer circumstances, a state of equality and calm, if it cannot be at once of inner happiness, on going more and more within and looking from within outwards instead of living in the surface mind which is always at the mercy of the shocks and blows of life. It is only from that inner state that one can be stronger than life and its disturbing forces and hope to conquer.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/quiet-and-calm#p27</ref> <center>~</center> No attachments, no desires, no impulses, no preferences; perfect equanimity, unchanging peace and absolute faith in the Divine protection: with that you are safe, without it you are in peril. And as long as you are not safe, it is better to do like little chickens that take shelter under the mother's wings.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/12-may-1929#p17</ref> <center>~</center> The body [experiences physical pain], naturally—but the body transmits it to the vital and mental. With the ordinary consciousness the vital gets disturbed and afflicted and its forces diminished, the mind identifies and is upset. The mind has to remain unmoved, the vital unaffected, and the body has to learn to take it with equality so that the higher Force may work. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p103</ref>
The body [experiences physical pain]peace of God within will be extended in the gnostic experience of the universe into a universal calm of equality not merely passive but dynamic, a calm of freedom in oneness dominating all that meets it, tranquillising all that enters into it, naturally—but imposing its law of peace on the body transmits it to supramental being's relations with the vital and mentalworld in which he is living. With Into all his acts the ordinary consciousness inner oneness, the vital gets disturbed inner communion will attend him and afflicted and its forces diminishedenter into his relations with others, the mind identifies and is upset. The mind has who will not be to remain unmoved, him others but selves of himself in the vital unaffectedone existence, his own universal existence. It is this poise and freedom in the body has spirit that will enable him to learn take all life into himself while still remaining the spiritual self and to take it with equality so that embrace even the world of the Ignorance without himself entering into the higher Force may workIgnorance.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3122/illnessthe-andgnostic-healthbeing#p103p15</ref>
==For Overcoming Duality==
The world is full of things that are not pleasing or beautiful, but that is no reason why one should live in a constant feeling of repulsion for these things. All feelings of shrinking and disgust and fear that disturb and weaken the human mind can be overcome. A Yogi has to overcome these reactions; for almost the very first step in Yoga demands that you must keep a perfect equanimity in the presence of all beings and things and happenings. Always you must remain calm, untouched and unmoved; the strength of the Yogi lies there. An entire calmness and quietness will disarm even dangerous and ferocious animals when they confront you.