The discernment and the guide

Service

However, the transformative action of the process of cleansing and unifying all the parts and movements of our nature around our central innermost being, requires time. There is a shortcut being presented to all of us now: it is for each of us to serve the truth.

This commitment, once made, will demand increasing courage, fortitude, rigorous honesty, scrupulous attention, evolving discernment, all qualities and powers which can and must be cultivated – and are most needed in our present collective condition.

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This is in fact the most revolutionary practice, the most effective way to change oneself and one’s environment, all the more so as one grows into it and begins to experience concrete love for the truth, which is an aspect of the supreme self.

As one tries more and more sincerely to be true, in every circumstance, every situation and every relationship, one is gradually set free from all conventional values and from dualities such as public or private, work or leisure, professional or personal, and such judgments and appreciations as ordinarily motivate individual choices.

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