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More on Individuality - (4380)

Individuality once again is when we have created a space of free essence within ourselves and we can go to it any time and operate, decide, think and speak from there.


This is the true order within us and sets up order outside of ourselves also.


We learn after much pain what the true order is within us and outside of ourselves.


We can with good intentions disrupt this order believing we are doing a good thing for others and ourselves and later on suffer for it.


We need our will to be an individual... To be an individual we need to rescue our will.


We need to be able to exercise it reasonably with balance and consideration. If we can't exercise it we don't have it.


We can exercise it at total random and subject to any whim if we like but we will notice that soon it will become trapped again or restricted because of the karma we get.


If the exercising of our will affects others we can intelligently work with others. Co-operation and good-will goes a long way.


When exercising our will towards higher values over lower values, informing but not conceding is more correct.


Not exercising our will in favour of higher values causes us to lose our individuality. Our entrapment or conditioning increases as we weaken our will.


End (4380).

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