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Observing, Understanding and Overcoming the Impact of Negativity and Hostility on the Sensitive Nature of the Refined Individual · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Refined and sensitive individuals tend to judge others
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  by their own, internal standard. In many cases, this means
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  expecting others to always respond with Goodwill compassion
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  and honesty, they build up an image of how the world works.
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  That is based on their inner sense of things.
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  And in many cases, they see the world through a filter, the
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  tints things according to their vision, In some cases they
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  actually deny reality two- or hostile acts by a conscious
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  decision to not engage and recompense negativity with their
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  own positive view. When these things do not work
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  out as expected, they may suffer intensely as their sensitive
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  Nature's react. Even to pin Pricks and tend to
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  crumble under heavy blows Some like hamlet in Shakespeare's
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  famous play of that name, bemoan their feet when they finally
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  realized the actual State of Affairs and see that their ideal
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  view of the world has been misplaced and wonder Whether tis
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  nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of Outrageous
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  Fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles.
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  And by opposing end them. For the Spiritual Secret is both
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  important and useful that the true nature of the world we live
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  in is understood as well as the status of the evolutionary
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  process that can lead to a better and more harmonious
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  existence in the future. Eventually, the Seeker must find
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  a way to reconcile the understanding with the feelings
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  and still find a way forward. The Bible indicates behold I
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  send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves.
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  Be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
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  A Clear Vision of the dishonesty violence self-dealing, and
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  unfairness of life. In the world, is an element of
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  the truth that must be recognized from that point.
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  The Seeker needs to find a way to reconcile, the reality of
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  today's existence with the vision and aspiration, he has
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  for a better world in the future.
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  This comes about through removal of the ego personality from the
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  reaction. And recognizing that this is the
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  way of the world. Not something simply directed at
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  the individual out of that broader context.
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  SRI aurobindo notes. Quote, one has not to cure
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  oneself of when sensitiveness but only acquire the power to
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  rise to a higher Consciousness, taking such disenchantment such
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  as a sort of jumping board. One way is not to expect even
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  Square, dealings from others, no matter who the others are and
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  besides, it is good to have such experiences of the real nature
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  of some people to which a generous nature is often blind
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  for that helps the growth of one's consciousness.
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  The blow you wince, at seems to you so hard because it is a
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  blow, the world of your mental formation, has sustained.
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  Such a world often becomes a part of our being.
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  The result is that a blow dealt to?
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  It gives almost physical pain. The great compensation is that
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  it makes you live more and more in the real world in
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  contradistinction to the world of your imagination, which is
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  what you would like the real world to be.
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  But the real world is not all that.
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  Could be desired, you know? And that is why it has to be
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  acted upon and transformed by the Divine consciousness.
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  But for that knowledge of the reality, however, unpalatable is
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  almost the first requisite. This knowledge often enough is
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  best brought home to us through blows and bleeding's.
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  True idealistic people sensitive people refine Nature's smart
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  under such disillusionment more than two others who are somewhat
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  thick-skinned, but that is no reason why find susceptibilities
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  be blunted. The thing is to learn to detach
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  oneself from any such experience and learn to look at such
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  perversions of others. A higher altitude from where one
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  can regard these manifestations in the proper perspective.
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  The impersonal one, then our difficulties really and
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  literally become opportunities for knowledge.
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  When it goes to the root of our troubles has in itself, a
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  marvelous healing power as it were as soon as you touch the
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  quick of the trouble as soon as you diving down and down, get at
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  what really allows you. The pain disappears as though by
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  a miracle and quote reference SRI aurobindo and the mother
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  living within the yoga approach to psychological health and
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  growth, disturbances of the vital sensitiveness Pages. 65 to
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