Seeking Aid of Overself Exercise continued: “When a man says to himself, “I am unhappy,” he hangs chains around his mind. When, however, he meets the challenge of precisely similar circumstances by thinking insistently: “To whom has this unhappiness come?” he at once stands in objective relationship to his dark mood. Such definite questioning destroys these moods because it initiates a process which leads to the destruction of their very basis, which is self-identification with them. Although the quest begins as a mental process it will end, if faithfully followed, as a state of spontaneous spiritual being. The need of retiring inwards, however briefly, and awaiting the silent answer is real, for recognition of who the true self really is repels the false notion that the body’s moods, the mind’s moods, are one’s own. In this way the most grievous sorrow may be kept at a psychological distance.” “The divine intelligence within man can deal with all his problems for it is wiser than he. When despair taps relentlessly at the doors of a man’s heart, the time has arrived to hand over his affairs to the Overself. He may do this by redirecting his mind as quickly as possible inwards, and by keeping on with this redirection in the face of all opposition until he reaches the central core of quietness where mysterious help awaits him. He should become so absorbed in that quietness that the painful problem which was his starting-point, should be forgotten for a few moments or minutes, or even longer. Such forgetfulness always supervenes when the personal ego is captured and gripped by the Overself. Even two seconds of it will suffice to bring remarkable results.” THE QUEST OF THE OVERSELF, Chapter XVI, pg 264-265
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