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Among human beings, the most widely spread disease is mental narrowness. They understand only what is in their own consciousness and cannot tolerate anything else.(The Mother, 24 September 1953)<ref>The Mother. (2003). Narrowness and one-sidedness. In Words of the mother II.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/narrowness-and-one-sidedness#p10</ref> These desires, these passions have no personality, there is nothing in them or their action that is peculiar to you; they manifest in the same way in everyone. The obscure movements of the mind too, the doubts and errors and difficulties that cloud the personality and diminish its expansion and fulfilment,(The Mother, 4 August 1929)<ref>The Mother. (2002). 4 August 1929. In Questions and answers (1929-1931).http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/4-august-1929#p5</ref>
= How to Overcome the Barriers? =