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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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