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Indigo implies pure feelings, and the love of beauty in all its manifestations. Choose this color to deepen your love for others, and for God, as well as your appreciation for everything good in life. Indigo has its negative aspects, however, especially for those whose emotions take them downward. Don’t let indigo generate in you attitudes of rejection or withdrawal.

Blue is the color of expansive calmness. If it lacks warmth, however, its effect on the feelings can be chilling. (Think of the expression, “steely blue.”) This color, therefore, should also be given a touch of warmth to keep its influence uplifting and devotional. Blue is a good color for meditation.

Green is the color of health and harmony; it is most visible among growing things. Green gives a heightened sense of physical and mental well-being. Where there is a focus on health, however, there can also be one on ill health. Unpleasant shades of green can disturb the feelings. Green, therefore, is associated also with harmful emotions such as envy and jealousy.

Yellow is the color of wisdom, insight, and calm acceptance. This color can also, however, be disturbing for those who shrink from meeting challenges. If what you seek in life is progress, yellow may help you to become more creative. An impure yellow, however, can have a somewhat sickening effect on the mind.

The color orange suggests fire. It helps one to generate enthusiasm for destroying all desires and attachments. It can also be irritating, however, especially if one tends toward placidity. And orange can feed a tendency to cry out to people, “Look at me!” Think of workers on the roads. They purposely wear orange to be noticed, so that cars won’t hit them.

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The color red can be cheerful. It can also—especially if it is muddy—stimulate to lust or anger. If red resonates with you, make sure that it affects you in the right way, by making you brighter, more cheerful, happier.

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The colors of the rainbow have not only a visual impact. They can also affect you vibrationally, when they resonate with the field of energy surrounding you—that is to say, your aura. Surround yourself with pure colors. Muddy hues can obscure mental clarity. Bright hues can induce brighter emotions. Colors should resonate with your nature as it is, and with the qualities you would like to develop in yourself.

Select music for its pleasing or uplifting melody, rhythm, and harmony. A melody can do more than entertain: it can uplift; it can fill you with longing; or, alternatively, it can depress you. A rhythm can calm, invigorate, or disturb the nervous system. Harmony can evoke deep, calm feelings of peace, love, and happiness, or incite to anger, haunt with loneliness, torment with anxiety. Choose your music wisely, for its influence on you can be deep. A woman once tried to commit suicide. She had a near-death experience in which she found herself in a hellish region where the vibrations, as she reported later, were very similar to the beat of heavy rock ’n’ roll music. Later, she devoted her life to warning people against the insidious influence of such self-lowering music.

True happiness is not the fruit of years of painful struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession, rather, of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. As my Guru said, “The minutes are more important than the years.”

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There are two kinds of innocence: that of ignorance, and that of wisdom. A little girl, asked once by a little boy, “Are you a virgin?” replied, “No; not yet.” Hers was the innocence of ignorance. Such innocence may in time be undermined. The innocence of wisdom, however, follows upon the complete conquest of ego. Such innocence, though childlike, can never be undone. Its strength, though flexible, is indomitable.

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