{"id":3876,"date":"2015-02-02T03:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=3876"},"modified":"2015-02-01T12:55:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T17:55:59","slug":"true-balance-through-self-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2015\/02\/true-balance-through-self-knowledge.html","title":{"rendered":"True Balance Through Self-Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are not made by that Great Intelligence that balances whole star systems, to suffer from the conflict that arises from an unbal\u00adanced understanding of our own essential nature! This is why if we ever wish to gain conscious control over our present nature &#8212; along with what it attracts into our life &#8212; we must gain what the great saints and mystics have always held in the highest esteem: true self-knowl\u00adedge. But this needed higher knowledge cannot be acquired from sources outside of us; it must be gained through personal self-discovery. Only real changes in the level of self-understanding can help us effect real changes in our present nature, for the two are very much related. Change one and we change the other, including what it has been attracting into our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are not made by that Great Intelligence that balances whole star systems, to suffer from the conflict that arises from an unbal\u00adanced understanding of our own essential nature! 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