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The unfortunate result of all efforts at self-improvement is that the ego creates further and deeper separation within itself, defeating its own purpose by strengthening the very source of separation and conflict that the ego itself is. Such efforts lead at best to mental frustration and at worst to total insanity.

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You can neither effect nor avoid change because change is life itself, just as the flow is the river. To attempt to resist or provoke change is futile, and there is no other way but to realize it. The inexorable flow of causation is not to be influenced by a mere shadow of its own expression, which is all that a human being is.

Ramesh Balsekar 

18 November