Negation closes the keenest eye.

4-29-19   The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, estimates that Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, owns assets worth about $200 billion.  Last week, the embassy posted on its Facebook page that the regime in Iran is rife with corruption from top to bottom, with Khamenei reaping the most benefits, Iran News Wire reported.  https://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-embassy-irans-supreme-leader-worth-200-billion/

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4-29-19  As well as breaking up his rallies with teargas and beatings authorities have halted some of his scheduled concerts, citing public order concerns.  

Wine says the cancellations are retaliation for his criticism of Museveni.

  Museveni has ruled Uganda since 1986 and is expected to stand again in 2021 after a court this month cleared the way for him to seek re-election.  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uganda-politics/ugandan-pop-star-and-critic-of-president-museveni-detained-over-protest-idUSKCN1S51S4

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262.  Do not think that We exaggerate the dangers of superstition and bigotry.  The lives of most people are based upon these prejudices which deprive them of freedom of thought and so fill them with ignorant convictions that they deliberately close their eyes and ears to the most obvious manifestations.  If one wants to see, one must have an open mind.  Negation closes the keenest eye.  On the other hand one must beware of false, imagined visions.  Thus there remains only one way--the golden middle way which We have already stressed.  He who follows the middle way knows an all-embracingness that excludes or changes nothing.  This is not an easy way, for it requires a refinement of consciousness.    -M:  Community 1926

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125.  Thus does the disciple approach the Teacher: open, ready to shed the old-world tatters, striving toward the new consciousness, eager for knowledge, fearless, truthful, devoted, keenly vigilant, industrious, knowing goal-fitness and sensitive.

132.  One must keenly discern the true motives of one's co-workers.  The shield protects those who, through sincere striving to enlightenment, can make straight the convolutions of darkness. 

413.  Pure striving produces flashes of fire.  One has to observe these beginnings and the conditions that accompany them.  For this purpose a true ability to observe keenly should be developed.   It is not easy to achieve the ability to observe.       -M:  Agni Yoga 1929

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212.  Patience is the gift of heaven--thus spoke the ancients. Why should patience belong to heaven when in reality it should belong exclusively to the heart?  Yet how shall we exert patience without knowing the higher world?  Only when the silver thread shall be drawn from the heart to the higher world will the understanding of patience come.  We revere that quality; it is close to tolerance and containment, in other words, to the opening of the gates.

357.  Do not think that We exaggerate the dangers of superstition and bigotry.  The lives of most people are based upon these prejudice  which deprive them of freedom of thought and so fill them with ignorant convictions that they deliberately close their eyes and ears to the most obvious manifestations.  If one wants to see, one must have an open mind.  Negation closes the keenest eye.  On the other hand one must beware of false, imagined visions.  Thus there remains only one way--the golden middle way which We have already stressed.  He who follows the middle way knows an all-embracingness that excludes or changes nothing.   This is not an easy way, for it requires a refinement of consciousness.    

                          -Morya:  Supermundne 1, 1938

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