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<p class="paracenter">THE INNER AND THE OUTER
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<p class="para">The external part of the being is turned to 
the Divine: you are conscious of your ideal and as much as possible you 
conform your behaviour to it. You appear what you want to be. But just 
behind the line, on the other side of your consciousness—in the 
subconscious, as it is called —the picture is different. The light has 
not touched there: the movements go the other way. Things— thoughts, 
impulses, feelings—hide which you would not like to own. Not that you 
consciously and deliberately hide them: but they are there as inevitable
 part and parcel of the original ordinary nature. They form the backyard
 of the consciousness; there are ail kinds of nooks and corners, if not 
quite open spaces, which have accumulated darkness and dirt. This 
two-sidedness is common, in fact, universal; you have to be one-sided, 
that is, of one piece, wholly turned to the light. You must be conscious
 of these hidden elements and bring them out, expose them to the light 
calmly, candidly, fearlessly, so that the luminous force may act on 
them. They have to be drawn out and rejected, or if possible, to be 
purified and changed. Some are capable of change and become right 
movements; others are wholly wrong, they belong to the inferior 
consciousness and have to be cast away without pity.
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