If we learn to live within, we infallibly awaken to the presence within us which is our more real self, a presence profounder, calm, joyous and puissant of which the world is not a master — a presence which, if it is not the Lord Himself, is the radiation of the Lord within. And if we can go back into ourselves and identify ourselves, not with our superficial experience, but with that radiant penumbra of the Divine, we can live in that attitude towards the contacts of the world and, standing back in our entire consciousnessfrom the pleasures and pains of the body, vital being and mind, possess them as experiences whose nature being superficial does not touch or impose itself on our core and real being. The truth of ourselves lies within and not on the surface.
If we learn to live within, we infallibly awaken to the presence within us which is our more real self, a presence profounder, calm, joyous and puissant of which the world is not a master — a presence which, if it is not the Lord Himself, is the radiation of the Lord within. And if we can go back into ourselves and identify ourselves, not with our superficial experience, but with that radiant penumbra of the Divine, we can live in that attitude towards the contacts of the world and, standing back in our entire consciousnessfrom the pleasures and pains of the body, vital being and mind, possess them as experiences whose nature being superficial does not touch or impose itself on our core and real being. The truth of ourselves lies within and not on the surface.