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How to take advantage of the internal state to succeed in life?

Answer from the V.M. Samael Aun Weor.

To correctly combine internal states with external events is to know how to live intelligently...

Any event intelligently lived demands its corresponding specific internal state...

Nonetheless, when people review their lives, unfortunately, they only think that their life is exclusively constituted by external events...

Wretched people! They think that if this or that event had never happened to them, their lives would have been better...

They think that fortune came to meet them; yet, they lost the opportunity to be happy...

Disgraceful events like the setbacks of fortune, misery, debts, problems etc. are the exclusive property of those persons who do not know how to live...

Anyone can acquire a rich intellectual culture; yet, few are the persons who have learned how to live in an upright manner...

When one wants to separate external events from the internal states of consciousness, one demonstrates concretely his incapacity of existing in a dignified manner.

Those who learn how to consciously combine external events with internal states march on the path of success.

Samael Aun Weor. Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology.

Answer from the Magazine "The Wisdom of the Being".

The secret of success are not favorable extraordinary opportunities (external events); rather, it is learning to place the external event in its proper internal state. Many of us must laugh when we cry, we worry meaninglessly, we identify ourselves fanatically with the false ideas of a political party; all this brings pain, diseases and problems of all kinds.

How to manage to combine suitable internal states with external events? One would believe that by reading a lot, studying a complete encyclopedia, having many professional titles, but: that will help us to work well and earn money, but it does not serve to learn to live righteously.

What is needed is to learn to control ourselves, to have the ability to be calm in front of an angry crowd and not end up screaming senselessly and destroying things; being able to be at a party and not drink wine, do drugs or end up adulterating; Faced with the death of a loved one, it is logical to be sad, but not to despair.

That sounds very nice, but in practice it is tremendously difficult to achieve, because we love ourselves too much, we think of ourselves as the best parents on Earth, the best children, the best siblings, in fact, they do not pay us as it is. Because, one thinks that he has sacrificed himself for others, that he is good to everyone and they pay us with the coin of ingratitude.

Instead of pitying others, we feel exaggerated pity for themselves, this makes us look for loopholes to not fulfill our responsibilities. This causes us to fill ourselves with negative emotions at all times, wrong internal states that do not coincide with the external events that are presented to us in life.

It is not luck, it is not the universe, it is not the government that has us so bad. It is our terrible way of facing life.

What we need is symbolized in the graphic of the Arcanum 11 of the Tarot, a woman, with an Olympic serenity, opening the jaws of a hideous lion. One could, for example, with calm words, full of sincerity, calm violent states inside the house. But, for this, it is necessary to put the appropriate internal state.

The Wisdom of Being Magazine 90, Chapter: "Internal State".