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Living
From Your Center
from Awaken
to Superconsciousness by Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters)
The average
person is like an eccentric flywheel. I don't mean a flywheel with
an offbeat personality, but simply a flywheel that isn't centered
properly. The faster the wheel turns, the more violently it vibrates.
At a certain speed, its vibration may actually cause it to fly apart.
Most people are frequently in danger of "flying apart,"
at least mentally. Living at their periphery, not at their center,
they vibrate more violently the faster they whirl through life.
It is safe to say that few people think of themselves as even having
a center. They are forever "on edge."
One problem with living at your periphery is that it forces you
to relate to other people at theirs. They, in turn, will be "on
edge" with you. Your understanding of them, and theirs of you,
will be a view from the outside; it will therefore be superficial.
The secret of understanding is to get mentally inside whatever
it is you are trying to understand - to gaze outward, so to speak,
from its center rather than inward from its periphery. The secret
of understanding other people is to identify with them at their
center. To find the center of anything or anyone, first withdraw
to your own center and project your feelings empathetically from
that point.
The more you
attune yourself from your center to the center in everything, the
more you will find that there is a sympathetic inter-relationship
in the universe that makes possible the perfect understanding of
all things. Depend not on intellectual analysis, which separates
things and compartmentalizes them, but try to feel the heart
of whatever it is you are trying to understand.
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