CS-0205 - "Success is achieved when free will and cir***stances work hand
in
hand."
The quality in the mind which makes it still at times and active at other
times, which makes it reflect what it sees at one time and makes it avoid
every reflection at another so that no outer reflection can touch it, this
quality develops by concentration, contemplation, and meditation. The mind
is trained by the master-trainer by diving deep, by soaring high, by
expanding widely, and by centralizing the mind on one idea. And once the
mind is mastered a person becomes a master of life. Every soul from the
time
it is born is like a machine, subject to all influences, influences of
weather and of all that works through the five senses. For instance, no
one
can pass through a street without seeing the placards and advertisements.
A
man's eyes are compelled by what is before him. He has no intention of
looking, but everything outside commands the eyes. So a man is constantly
under the influence of all things of the outside world that govern him
unknowingly. A person says, 'I am a free man; I do what I like.' But he
never does. He does what he does not like many times. His ears are always
subject to hear anything that falls on them, whether it is harmonious or
inharmonious, and what he sees he cannot resist. And so a man is always
under the influence of life.
Then there are the planetary influences and the living influences of those
around him; and yet a man says, 'I have free will; I am a free man.' If he
knew to what little extent he is free he would be frightened. But then
there
is one consolation, and that is that in man there is a spark somewhere
hidden in his heart which alone can be called a source of free will. If
this
spark is tended a person has greater vitality, greater energy, greater
power. All he thinks will come true, all he says will make an impression,
all he does will have effect. What does a mystic do? He blows this spark
in
order to bring it to a flame till it comes to a blaze. This gives him the
inspiration, the power which enables him to live in this world the life of
free will. It is this spark which may be called the divine heritage of
man,
in which he sees the divine power of God, the soul of man; and to become
spiritual means that by blowing upon this spark one produces light from it
and sees the whole of life in this light. And by bringing the inner light
to
a blaze one is more able to think, to feel, and to act.
HEALING AND THE MIND WORLD - MENTAL PURIFICATION - The Control of the Mind
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