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RESTORING OUR BALANCE
adult or old age is always creative and never a closed chapter. So there is always more to learn about ourselves as we heal, grow, and integrate all aspects of ourselves. The more integrated we are the better we are able to participate in creative evolution of life. Life I would rather say is a creative balancing sport. When spirituality is intertwined with life the act of balancing is more interesting and lively. When we appreciate the role of the Master in His spiritual splendor in our individual game of life, it gains a greater meaning.
Master while expressing his longing to get fellow associates in the path to reach the Destination poetically states that “... will surely come to the conclusion that you are sailing towards your own Home, wherefrom you have been snatched away by the Irony of fate.” Elaborating further he states that ‘when we use the phrase of ‘irony of fate’ the idea of unbalanced character presents itself to our memory. So long as there was the Balanced state, we had no form of our own. We have simply to unfold ourselves and restore our own Balance which we had lost.” Rather than getting off track and being seduced into the highs or lows of life, we live with courage, confidence and faith in the Master as life unfolds, ready to meet new experiences, all the time dwelling
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