Self-Actualization

The realized self is like a lotus in full blossom.

Floating on the waters, the flower is rooted deep down below the water in the mud.

It has grown and blossomed in the light of the sun.

In the same way, the human soul is rooted in the depths of the unconscious.

Our conscious self is only a fragment of our total being.

It strikes its roots deep down below in the depths of the unconscious.

We cannot, therefore, achieve self-actualization

without incorporating all the different forces of the unconscious

intothe concrete texture of our personality.

But that is not all.

The self is also what it is in response to the light of the superconscious.

The self cannot be fully actualized without the discovery

ofthe infinite light of Being-realization.

Our life becomes completely integrated only as a result

ofour awareness of the reality of the super-conscient.

                                                                                                -Haridas Chaudhuri

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