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By
Jayanti Patel

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Introduction

This is an introduction to a book, which is itself an

introduction.
It is an introduction to a way of thinking and living life
that has been developing in the human potential
movement for the past ten thousand years, perhaps
longer.
The material of this book is not intended as just
another good idea.
It isn't even about a system of approaching life that I
believe in.
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This isn't another band aid to put on your life, nor
another "try this" approach.
What this book is about isn't even what it appears to
be about when you read the words.
It is actually about you, but not the "you" that you
ordinarily think of when you think of yourself.
The "you" I want you to know about is the divine you,
the one that includes, but is by no means limited to, the
everyday "you."
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The purpose of this book is to present you with an
opportunity to experience yourself as divine, a process that
has been called enlightenment down through the ages.
To experience yourself as divine, it is necessary to look at
the everyday "you.“
Everyday you is described in Book I: Knowing the Mind.
At times this may be tedious reading.
You may feel insulted when confronted with the everyday
you.
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Nevertheless, it is necessary to see all facets of the

everyday you in order to see through everyday you to
divine you.
The terminology presented may be new to you.
It will require some attention and some intention to
make it through the following pages.
It can also be wonderful fun.
The result will be an expansion of your life and a
commitment to participation you may not have imagined
could be "you."
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I have written each chapter separately from all the rest, so that you
may easily refresh yourself on the material as you lead your life.
My sole purpose in writing these book is to serve you.
I fully recognize the divine you as the true source of what you gain
from reading this work.
All ideas written in this book are to be read and used at your own
responsibility.
These ideas are not meant to be a fail-proof recipe for how to live
your life.
You are responsible for what you believe in life and the
consequences of your beliefs.
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Problems are actually
opportunities.
The larger the problem is,
the larger the opportunity.
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I want to say a few words about a
subject dear to the human heart.
Without question people find
themselves in circumstances and
conditions which they did not create,
which were created for them and thrust
upon them.
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The fact that you have problems in life
does not make you a victim, but
handling your problems from the
position of victim does.
Some people have literally born
themselves into circumstances so heavy
with problems that it almost seems a cruel
joke.
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For such people it is especially easy to allow
circumstances to have the appearance of determining
the presence or absence of satisfaction in life.
It certainly appears that one has little or no choice in
such conditions.
So, set in the context that we all know that
circumstances can be extremely difficult, I want you to
know how to hold, or regard, such things as divorce,
poverty, cruel parents, etc.
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Problems have great potential for contributing

satisfaction to life.
In fact, the bigger the problem the greater its
potential for contribution to your life.
But only if you hold it as an opportunity.
If there were no conditions to challenge you,
there would be no real way for you to come to
know about your Self and your capacity to make
life work.
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If you had no naturally occurring problems in life, you
would have to make some up in order to overcome
them and thus experience your Self.
You can be certain that people do exactly that So
problematic conditions are a tremendous
opportunity to really have your life work and
experience the Workingness of it.
Even more wonderful than that is that problems are
an opportunity to really know yourself as your Self.

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It just so happens that there are no circumstances
capable of invalidating you.
Only you are powerful enough in your life to
invalidate you.
If you do that, kindly take credit for it.
If you think and feel that your life is not worth living, I
want you to know that no one in your world could
have been powerful enough to define it that way and
make it stick for you, except you.
Conditions and other people cannot do that to you.
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People have led worthwhile lives in the face of

cruel parents, concentration camp, slavery, and
mean bosses.
Others have created joy and satisfaction in their
lives in the face of mental retardation, no money,
no education, no support from their parents,
even no parents.

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I know that you think you are some sort of

an exception, that your circumstances are
special.
No one ever had it as bad as you and, if
they did, they certainly could not have had
their lives work.
Everybody knows that, right?
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Of course you are unique.
And no one ever had exactly your problems.
Not exactly.
But that is where it ends.
You don't get to hide behind uniqueness even though
you are unique and even though your exact problems
are unique.
You don't get to use uniqueness as a reason your
life didn't turn out.
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If you don't handle your unique situations, it is that you
don't handle them, not that they cannot be handled.
The conditions of human life and the aspects of
human experience are adequately similar from
person to person so that it is evident that certain
truths are always applicable.
Maybe no one ever had problems with the father that
you had problems with, but I promise you others have
had big , I mean really big problems with their fathers
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So much for the naturally occurring problems.
Now, most of what you think are your naturally
occurring problems are not naturally occurring.
You actually made them up by clever
manipulation and then disowned them and
lied, even to yourself, about who authored
the problems.

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People do this in order to have an
opportunity to experience problems through.
That is the purpose of problems.
You will never know how capable you are until
1. you get off your victim position, and
2. use your problems as a way to experience
yourself as your Self.
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A "victim," as we use the word here, does not refer to
a person who has problems, or even to a person
who makes up problems without admitting it.
A victim is a person who handles his problems from
the position that
(1) others have done it to him when they haven't, or
(2) the problems are bigger than he is, or
(3) he uses "problems" to justify something.
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In this sense all of us have been "victims" from time

to time in life.
But that game is getting called for the phony that it
is.
There are no "victims" in the sense that we are
using the word here.
There are people who source, or cause, their life
content by using a victim act, but there are no
"victims," not evenPPTyou.
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Once you get this, I want you to know that no one is
powerful enough to make you handle your life
responsibly.
You don't have to, and you are not even wrong if you
don't. And there are consequences.
If you do choose to handle problems in your life
responsibly, you won't even be right for doing it.
And there will be consequences.
There will be enjoyment andPATEL
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You will have relationships that work.
You will sleep well at night.
You get to nurture others and be nurtured by them.
You get to have the experience of loving others,
making a contribution to life, and dying satisfied when
that time comes.
Notice the consequences of the context in which you
hold problems; then choose what you want to be:
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