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Creating Healthy Individuals
Heaven lieth at the feet of mothers. God's pleasure is in a father's pleasure; and God's displeasure is in a father's displeasure. He who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother.
-Al-Quran
Tt is very human to act entirely upon intense but Lunconscious emotional considerations rather than on objective and conscious intellectual inference. For, as unrealized souls, we are not rational beings. We are only human beings, so our irrational emotions are natural.
In the Mahabharata, overwhelmed by despair and desiring to flee the battlefield, Arjuna begins his monologue to justify his wish to put down arms. So it is with all of us. Swamped by indefensible emotion, we vindicate ourselves with reason and logic. When our incongruent decisions and actions threaten our ego, we seek refuge in rationalization. While acting in defence of the ego, the intellect of man serves as an engine for sustaining illusion. Can this intellect be freed from ego to become a powerful instrument that facilitates higher human traits?
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