There are some kinds of fruits in which the kernel grows but the shell does not grow. The shell prevents the growth of the core (the soul). The shell is the physical body, the emotional body, and the mental body. It is traditions, your knowledge, your philosophy, your psychology. It is your money, your dollars, your possessions, your car. These are the shell. The shell is so hard that it does not allow the core to radiate out or to bloom. And because the core is strong and eventually breaks the shell, it causes lots of trouble in the shell. It cracks it. And this cracking is your problems, your emotional problems, physical problems and mental problems.
What we see, what we are observing perhaps within ourselves or with others, is that once we have gone through the first rush of enthusiasm, then accordingly the psychic energy, which radiates from the "source" of the Teaching, evokes a call from your core (kernel) (human soul) which responds and cracks the shell, exposing the problems. Why? "There is something in you that is trying to grow, but the contents of your shell have been preventing it." Once the gate opens, the floods of resistance pour through, resistances fond in the personality. So, it is not the mundane work life that makes us too exhausted to go any further, it is the resistances of the personality life!
-Torkom Saraydarian
Dynamics of the Soul
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