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APRIL 1952

for ourselves and others. If we are inwardly diseased by ignorance, ill-will,
desire for conquest, full of passion and hatreds, we will spread darkness, misery
and strife. If we begin to understand ourselves and become inwardly aware of

true values we will spread light and peace.
The self is a series of volumes and cannot be understood in a day.
But once we begin to study we must study every word and know it from
beginning to end, for the end is the beginning and the beginning is the end.

If we can understand ourselves and the many paragraphs of which we are
made up, then Divine Wisdom will be found.
Our dreams are made up of our inhibitions and cravings, our unfulfilled

desires, our fears and all that beset our waking hours. Is it not necessary
then that we become aware of our thoughts and emotions in our waking
hours instead of being caught-up in them? Our sleeping hours are but the

intensification of our waking hours.
The proof is found in the problem that we are unable to solve in our
waking hours, yet when we sleep over it the answer is awaiting us when

we wake in the morning. We see new avenues which enable us to solve
the problems which seemed insurmountable.
There has been a lot of nonsense talked and written about the mystery
of this phenomenon, the answer is quite plain to the one who understands the

wholeness behind everything. So in this so-called sleep, the thin layer of the
outer consciousness is quiet and becomes more receptive. During so-called
waking hours the outer consciousness has worried over the problem and has

become weary and tense. When the tension is removed the prompting of the
deeper consciousness are discernible and when you wake up the problem
becomes easier to solve.
So the more we are aware of our thought-feelings during the day so

the mind becomes quieter. But this alertness must not only be for a few seconds
or during set periods. Practice is required, for the outer consciousness is not
used to such intensity of awareness. Yet through practice the mind becomes

alertly passive to receive promptings from the deeper conscious as in the waking
hours. The more aware you are in the outer, so the inner co-operates with the
result that there is a deeper and wider understanding of all things.

So the answer is, the more you are aware during waking hours, the less
dreams there are, for dreams are but the indication of thought-feelings, actions
and desires not completed, not understood. They need fresh interpretation

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