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therefore be discouraged by these recurrences or persistences,
but try always to stand back in an inner quietude and if they
come let them pass away like a cloud across the light. In time
these things will be finally dealt with by the Force.
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It [an outburst of anger] is really simply the recurrence of an old
habit of the nature. Look at it and see how trifling is the occa-
sion of the rising of this anger and its outburst — it becomes
more and more causeless and the absurdity of such move-
ments reveals itself. It would not really be difficult to get rid of
it if when it comes you looked at it calmly — for it is perfectly
possible to stand back in one part of the being observing in a
detached equanimity even while the anger rises on the surface,
as if it were someone else in your being who had the anger. The
difficulty is that you get alarmed, grieved and upset and that
makes it easier for the thing to get hold of your mind which it
should not do.
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When you have such thoughts, it makes a formation of force
which falls on the man against whom you are angry. If he is not
on his guard or if he is sensitive in any way, it may become ef-
fective upon him. That is why such thoughts should be avoided
altogether.
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Leaving the old habit
The reason why quietness is not yet fixed and anger returns
is that you allow your physical mind to become active. In regard
to the sadhana it begins to think there is this defect in you and
that defect and therefore the sadhana does not become im-
mediately effective and perfect. This makes the vital nervous or
despondent and in the despondency a state of irritation arises.
At the same time this mind becomes active as it has now with
regard to X or begins to judge and criticise and this too leads to
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