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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">...</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">man is separated in his mind, his life, his body from the universal and therefore, even as he does not know himself, is equally and even more incapable of knowing his fellow-creatures. He forms by inferences, theories, observations and a certain imperfect capacity </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">of sympathy a rough mental construction about them; but this is not knowledge. Knowledge can only come by conscious identity, for that is the only true knowledge,—existence aware of itself. We know what we are so far as we are consciously aware of ourself, the rest is hidden; so also we can come really to know that with which we become one in our consciousness, but only so far as we can become one with it. If the means of knowledge are indirect and imperfect, the knowledge attained will also be indirect and imperfect. It will enable us to work out with a certain precarious clumsiness but still perfectly enough from our mental standpoint certain limited practical aims, necessities, conveniences, a certain imperfect and insecure harmony of our relations with that which we know; but only by a conscious unity with it can we arrive at a perfect relation. Therefore we must arrive at a conscious unity with our fellow-beings and not merely at the sympathy created by love or the understanding created by mental knowledge, which will always be the knowledge of their superficial existence and therefore imperfect in itself and subject to denial and frustration by the uprush of the unknown and unmastered from the subconscient or the subliminal in them and us. But this </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">conscious oneness can only be established by entering into that in which we are one with them, the universal</span>style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"><nowiki>; and the fullness of the universal exists consciently only in that which is superconscient to us, in the Supermind: for here in our normal being the greater part of it is subconscient and therefore in this normal poise of mind, life and body it cannot be possessed. The lower conscious nature is bound down to ego in all its activities, chained triply to the stake of differentiated individuality. The Supermind alone commands unity in diversity. </nowiki><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-problem-of-life#p9</ref></span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #333333;">

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">To make the effort for one's own perfection and not to be disturbed by any mistake in others but reply by a silent will for their perfection also is always the right attitude.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc;"><ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/problems-in-human-relations#p9</u></ref></span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">You stop short at the perfection that others should realise and you are seldom conscious of the goal you should be pursuing yourself. If you are conscious of it, well then, begin with the work which is given to you, that is to say, realise what you have to do and do not concern yourself with what others do, because, after all, it is not your business. And the best way to the true attitude is simply to say, "All those around me, all the circumstances of my life, all the people near me, are a mirror held up to me by the Divine Consciousness to show me the progress I must make. Everything that shocks me in others means a work I have to do in myself." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc;"> <ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-8#p15</u></ref></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">And perhaps if one carried true perfection in oneself, one would discover it more often in others.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc;"><ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-8#p16</u></ref></span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">For the awakened individual the realisation of his truth of being and his inner liberation and And perhaps if one carried true perfection must be his primary seeking,—first, because that is the call of the Spirit within himin oneself, but also because one would discover it is only by liberation and perfection and realisation of the truth of being that man can arrive at truth of living. A perfected community also can exist only by the perfection of its individuals, and perfection can come only by the discovery and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">affirmation more often in life by each of his own spiritual being and the discovery by all of their spiritual unity and a resultant life unity. There can be no real perfection for us except by our inner self and truth of spiritual existence taking up all truth of the instrumental existence into itself and giving to it oneness, integration, harmony. As our only real freedom is the discovery and disengagement of the spiritual Reality within us, so our only means of true perfection is the sovereignty and self-effectuation of the spiritual Reality in all the elements of our natureothers.</spanref><refu>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2210/theaphorism-divine-life8#p37p16</u></ref></span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">We have to recognise once more that For the awakened individual exists not in himself alone but in the collectivity realisation of his truth of being and his inner liberation and perfection must be his primary seeking,—first, because that individual perfection and liberation are not is the whole sense call of God's intention in the world. The free use of our liberty includes Spirit within him, but also the because it is only by liberation of others and perfection and realisation of mankind; the perfect utility truth of being that man can arrive at truth of our living. A perfected community also can exist only by the perfection isof its individuals, having realised in ourselves and perfection can come only by the divine symbol, to reproduce, multiply discovery and ultimately universalise it in others.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc000000;">affirmation in life by each of his own spiritual being and the discovery by all of their spiritual unity and a resultant life unity. There can be no real perfection for us except by our inner self and truth of spiritual existence taking up all truth of the instrumental existence into itself and giving to it oneness, integration, harmony. As our only real freedom is the discovery and disengagement of the spiritual Reality within us, so our only means of true perfection is the sovereignty and self-effectuation of the spiritual Reality in all the elements of our nature. <ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2322/the-threefolddivine-life#p30</u>p37</ref></span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">We have to recognise once more that the individual exists not in himself alone but in the collectivity and that individual perfection and liberation are not the whole sense of God's intention in the world. The best way free use of our liberty includes also the liberation of helping others and of mankind; the perfect utility of our perfection is , having realised in ourselves the divine symbol, to transform oneself. Be perfect reproduce, multiply and you will be ultimately universalise it in a position to bring perfection to the worldothers.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc;"><ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1423/helping-others-andthe-thethreefold-worldlife#p12p30</u></ref></span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">The best way of helping others is to transform oneself. Be perfect and you will be in a position to bring perfection to the world. <ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/helping-others-and-the-world#p12</u></ref></span> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">There is a Reality, a truth of all existence which is greater and more abiding than all its formations and manifestations; to find that truth and Reality and live in it, achieve the most perfect manifestation and formation possible of it, must be the secret of perfection whether of individual or communal being. This Reality is there within each thing and gives to each of its formations its power of being and value of being. The universe is a manifestation of the Reality, and there is a truth of the universal existence, a Power of cosmic being, an all-self or world-spirit. Humanity is a formation or manifestation of the Reality in the universe, and there is a truth and self of humanity, a human spirit, a destiny of human life. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc;"><ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-divine-life#p36</u></ref></span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Man, too, becomes perfect only when he has found within himself that absolute calm and passivity of the Brahman and supports by it with the same divine tolerance and the same divine bliss a free and inexhaustible activity. Those who have thus possessed the Calm within can perceive always welling out from its silence the perennial supply of the energies that work in the universe. It is not, therefore, the truth of the Silence to say that it is in its nature a rejection of the cosmic activity. The apparent incompatibility of the two states is an error of the limited Mind which, accustomed to trenchant oppositions of affirmation and denial and passing suddenly from one pole to the other, is unable to conceive of a comprehensive consciousness vast and strong enough to include both in a simultaneous embrace. The Silence does not reject the world; it sustains it. Or rather it supports with an equal impartiality the activity and the withdrawal from the activity and approves also the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">reconciliation by which the soul remains free and still even while it lends itself to all action.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc;"><ref><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/reality-omnipresent#p5</u></ref></span>