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<p class="paracenter">DARKNESS TO LIGHT
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<p class="para">The<b> </b>Darkness is the measure of the Light. The world as it 
is is exactly the opposite of what it has to be and shall be. And in order to be 
what it shall be it had to become what it is now, just not that which it will 
be. The antipodes go together unavoidably: the depth of the precipice is the 
precise measure of the height. Man's fall represents the ascent he has to make, 
he is destined to make.
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<p class="para"> Hurdles and obstacles are put 
there in the way: not merely to test your strength, but to train it, to increase 
it, to discipline it. Difficulties abound precisely because by overcoming them 
you attain to the fullness of your perfection. You have been built with elements 
and forces that are exactly in keeping with what you are expected to do with 
them: you are placed in the midst of conditions and circumstances that are 
absolutely proportionate to what you have to realise. Indeed you carry within 
yourself all the difficulties that are necessary to make your realisation 
perfection itself.
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<p class="para"> When you receive a blow, do not 
draw back or blink and sink down: hold up your head with courage and fortitude 
and say to yourself, here is another opportunity
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<p class="para">given to take another step forward. The blow is a finger of 
light pointed towards a dark spot to be illumined, a weak link that has to be 
forged anew. In meeting and surmounting a difficulty you add another degree to 
your ascension, another sinew as it were to your muscle. Remember a difficulty 
is never out of proportion to your strength: it comes in the exact measure of 
your power to face it. It is your mind, your notion that makes the contrary 
suggestion, a kind of illusion possesses you that you are beyond your depth and 
must go adrift.
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<p class="para"> You may not be able to do the 
ideal thing at a given moment. You may not command the perfect gesture that is 
expected of you in a set of circumstances: the Divine may seem to be veiled from 
you and you do not hear the direct voice. But it does not matter. What is 
expected of you is to do your best, do the best that you are capable of at that 
moment. The highest that is present to you, the summit available for the time 
and under the circumstances—that should be the source and inspiration of your 
act. Act on the heights where you stand and aspire for higher heights.
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