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The Inner and the Outer THE
external part of the being is turned to the Divine: you are conscious of your
ideal and as much as possible you conform your behaviour to it. You appear
what you want to be. But just behind the line, on the other side of your
consciousness – in the subconscious, as it is called – the picture is
different. The light has not touched there: the movements go the other way.
Things – thoughts, impulses, feelings – hide which you would not like to own.
Not that you consciously and deliberately hide them: but they are there as
inevitable part and parcel of the original ordinary nature. They form the
backyard of the consciousness; there are all kinds of nooks and corners, if not
quite open spaces, which have accumulated darkness and dirt. This two-sidedness
is common, in fact, universal; you have to be one-sided, that is, of one piece,
wholly turned to the light. You must be conscious of these hidden elements and bring
them out, expose them to the light calmly, candidly, fearlessly, so that the
luminous force may act on them. They have to be pulled out and rejected, or if
possible, to be purified and changed. Some are capable of change and
become right movements; others are wholly wrong, they belong to the inferior
consciousness and have to be cast away without pity.
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