{"id":529,"date":"2011-06-07T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lettinggo\/?p=529"},"modified":"2011-06-05T21:19:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T01:19:07","slug":"working-to-transcend-dark-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2011\/06\/working-to-transcend-dark-states.html","title":{"rendered":"Working to Transcend Dark States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever we will lend our attention to the inner task of working to transcend some dark state at work within us, then in that same moment, even if we don\u2019t see the immediate fruits of our effort, we will have already begun to release ourselves from its restrictions. For our effort to be conscious of our condition instead of remaining its captive, fresh energies flood over and through us, lifting us into the new under\u00adstanding that who we really are can never be held back! 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