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Putting Aside
Arrogance
In using this practice of devotion we can, if we put away our
arrogance, learn something from the consciousness, or spirit, dwelling within everyone. We
can also, in an attitude of devotion, learn from the events of our lives. We can know our
world more deeply, too. We can gaze more clearly into the heavens; we can see more wisely
into the atom. There is much a humble person can learn looking out in any direction.Indeed,
most scientific discoveries have occurred when a dedicated human being put aside arrogance
or the presumptions of archaic knowledge to behold more accurately than any man or woman
before some basic truth of nature. Isaac Newton saw an apple falling and beheld the simple
phenomenon with such "devotion"
that he discovered the theory of gravity. It’s hard to believe he was the first man
in thousands of years to see this common act of nature so penetratingly.
Copernicus and Galileo looked at the heavens with fascination — and without bias;
they saw what the sun and earth were actually doing to one another. (The sun wasn’t
going around the earth; the earth and other planets were, in fact, going around the sun
— and Mars wasn’t really going backwards at times.)
Yoga masters often say...
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