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Isolation from External influences

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Published by The Mother on 01/18/2019
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  • Words of Long Ago
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  • conscious being
  • divine Self
  • Divinity
  • external influence

The only way to become a conscious being, to be oneself, is to unite with the divine Self that is in all. For that, we must, by the aid of concentration, isolate ourselves from external influences. When you are one with the Divinity within, you are one with all things in their depths. And it is through It and by It that you must enter into relation with them. You are then, but without attraction or repulsion, near to whatever is near to It and far from whatever is far.

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