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Speaker 1: The heart and the life. As the heart, so is
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Speaker 1: the life. The within is ceaselessly becoming the without. Nothing
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Speaker 1: remains unrevealed. That which is hidden is but for a time,
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Speaker 1: it ripens and comes forth at last, seed, tree, blossom,
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Speaker 1: and fruit are the fourfold order of the universe. From
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Speaker 1: the state of a man's heart precede the conditions of
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Speaker 1: his life. His thoughts blossom into deeds, and his deeds
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Speaker 1: bear the fruitage of character and destiny. Life is ever
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Speaker 1: unfolding from within and revealing itself to the light, and
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Speaker 1: thoughts engendered in the heart at last reveal themselves in words, actions,
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Speaker 1: and things accomplished. As the fountain from the hidden spring,
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Speaker 1: so flows forth a man's life from the secret recesses
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Speaker 1: of his heart. All that he is and does is
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Speaker 1: generated there. All that he will be and do will
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Speaker 1: take its rise from there. Sorrow and happiness, suffering and enjoyment,
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Speaker 1: fear and hope, hatred and love, ignorance and enlightenment are
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Speaker 1: nowhere but in the heart. They are solely mental conditions.
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Speaker 1: Man is the keeper of his heart, the watcher of
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Speaker 1: his mind, the solitary guard of his citadel of life.
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Speaker 1: As such, he can be diligent or negligent, He can
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Speaker 1: keep his heart more and more carefully. He can strenuously
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Speaker 1: watch and purify his mind, and he can guard against
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Speaker 1: the thinking of unrighteous thoughts. This is the way of
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Speaker 1: enlightenment and bliss. On the other hand, he can live
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Speaker 1: loosely and carelessly, neglecting the supreme task of rightfully ordering
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Speaker 1: his life. This is the way of self, delusion and suffering.
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Speaker 1: Man realize that life, in its totality proceeds from the mind,
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Speaker 1: and lo the way of blessedness is opened up for him,
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Speaker 1: For he will then discover that he possesses the power
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Speaker 1: to rule his mind and to fashion it in accordance
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Speaker 1: with his ideal. So he will elect to strongly, insteadfastly,
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Speaker 1: walk those pathways of thought and action which are altogether
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Speaker 1: excellent to him. Life will become beautiful and sacred, and
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Speaker 1: sooner or later he will put to flight all evil, confusion,
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Speaker 1: and suffering. For it is impossible for a man to
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Speaker 1: fall short of liberation, enlightenment, and peace who guards with
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Speaker 1: unwearying diligence the gateway of his heart, the nature and
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Speaker 1: power of mind. Mind is the arbiter of life. It
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Speaker 1: is the creator and shaper of conditions and the recipient
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Speaker 1: of its own results. It can taians within itself both
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Speaker 1: the power to create illusion and to perceive reality. Mind
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Speaker 1: is the infallible weaver of destiny. Thought is the thread
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Speaker 1: good and evil deeds are the warp and woof or foundation,
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Speaker 1: and the web woven upon the loom of life is character.
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Speaker 1: Mind close itself in garments of its own making. Man
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Speaker 1: as a mental being possesses all the powers of mind
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Speaker 1: and is furnished with unlimited choice. He learns by experience,
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Speaker 1: and he can accelerate or retard his experience. He is
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Speaker 1: not arbitrarily bound at any point, but he has bound
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Speaker 1: himself at many points, and having bound himself, he can,
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Speaker 1: when he chooses, liberate himself. He can become beastial or pure, ignorant,
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Speaker 1: or noble, foolish, or wise, just as he chooses. He can,
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Speaker 1: by reoccurring practice, form habits, and he can, by renewed effort,
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Speaker 1: break them off. He can surround himself with illusions until
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Speaker 1: truth is completely lost, and he can destroy each of
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Speaker 1: those illusions until truth is entirely recovered. His possibilities are endless,
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Speaker 1: his freedom is complete. It is the nature of the
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Speaker 1: mind to create its own conditions, and it chooses the
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Speaker 1: states in which it shall dwell. It also has the
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Speaker 1: power to alter any condition, to abandon any state that
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Speaker 1: it is continually doing, as it gathers knowledge of state
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Speaker 1: after state by repeated choice and exhaustive experience. Inward processes
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Speaker 1: of thought make up the sum of character and life.
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Speaker 1: Man can modify and alter these processes by bringing will
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Speaker 1: and effort to bear upon them. The bonds of habit, impotence,
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Speaker 1: and sin are self made and can only be destroyed
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Speaker 1: by one's self. They exist nowhere but in one's mind,
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Speaker 1: and although they are directly related to outward things, they
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Speaker 1: have no real existence in those things. The outer is
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Speaker 1: molded and animated by the inner, and never the inner
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Speaker 1: by the outer. Temptation does not arise in the outer object,
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Speaker 1: but in the lust of the mind for that object.
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Speaker 1: Nor do sorrow and suffering belong by nature to the
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Speaker 1: external things and happenings of life, but in an undisciplined
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Speaker 1: attitude of mind towards those things and happenings. The mind
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Speaker 1: that is disciplined by purity and fortified by wisdom avoids
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Speaker 1: all those lusts and desires which are inseparably bound up
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Speaker 1: with affliction, and so arrives at enlightenment and peace to
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Speaker 1: condemn others as evil and to curse at outside conditions.
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Speaker 1: As the source of earth, evil increases and does not
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Speaker 1: lessen the world's suffering and unrest. The outer is but
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Speaker 1: the shadow and effect of the inner, And when the
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Speaker 1: heart is pure, all outward things are pure. All growth
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Speaker 1: in life is from within outward. All decay and death
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Speaker 1: is from without inward. This is the universal law. All
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Speaker 1: evolution proceeds from within, All adjustment must take place within.
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Speaker 1: He who ceases to strive against others and employs his
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Speaker 1: powers and transformation, regeneration and development of his own mind
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Speaker 1: conserves his energies and preserves himself. And as he succeeds
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Speaker 1: in harmonizing his own mind, he leads others, by consideration
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Speaker 1: and charity, into a like blessed state. The way of
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Speaker 1: enlightenment and peace is not gained by assuming authority in
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Speaker 1: god guidance over other minds, but by exercising a lawful
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Speaker 1: authority over one's own mind, and by guiding one's self
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Speaker 1: in pathways of steadfast and lofty virtue. A man's life
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Speaker 1: proceeds from his heart and his mind. He has compounded
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Speaker 1: that mind by his own thoughts and deeds. It is
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Speaker 1: within his power to refashion that mind by his choice
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Speaker 1: of thought. In this manner he can transform his life.
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Speaker 1: Let us see how this is to be done. Formation
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Speaker 1: of habit. Every establishmental condition is an acquired habit, and
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Speaker 1: has become such by continuous repetition of thought. Despondency and cheerfulness,
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Speaker 1: anger and calmness, covetuousness and generosity. Indeed, all states of
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Speaker 1: mind are habits, built up by choice, until they have
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Speaker 1: become automatic. A thought constantly repeated, at last becomes a
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Speaker 1: fixed habit of the mind, and from such habits precedes
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Speaker 1: one's life. It is in the nature of the mind
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Speaker 1: to acquire knowledge by the repetition of its experiences. A thought,
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Speaker 1: which is very difficult at first to hold and dwell upon,
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Speaker 1: at last becomes, by constantly being held in the mind,
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Speaker 1: a natural and habitual practice. A boy, when commencing to
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Speaker 1: learn a trade, cannot even handle his tools right, much
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Speaker 1: less use them correctly. But after long repetition in practice,
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Speaker 1: he applies them with perfect ease and consummate skill. Likewise,
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Speaker 1: a state of mind, at first apparently incapable of realization,
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Speaker 1: is by perseverance in practice, at last acquired and built
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Speaker 1: into the care character as a natural and spontaneous condition.
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Speaker 1: In this power of the mind to form and reform
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Speaker 1: its habits its conditions is contained the basis of a
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Speaker 1: man's salvation. It is the open door to perfect liberty
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Speaker 1: by the mastery of self. For as a man has
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Speaker 1: the power to form harmful habits, so he equally has
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Speaker 1: the same power to create habits that are essentially good.
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Speaker 1: And here we come to a point which needs some clarifying,
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Speaker 1: and which calls for deep and earnest thought on the
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Speaker 1: part of my reader. It is commonly said to be
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Speaker 1: easier to do wrong than right, to sin, than to
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Speaker 1: be holy. Such a condition has come to be regarded
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Speaker 1: almost universally as a self evident truth. No less a
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Speaker 1: teacher than the Buddha has said, bad deeds and deeds
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Speaker 1: hurtful to ourselves are easy to do. What is benefit
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Speaker 1: official and good that is very difficult to do. And
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Speaker 1: with regards to humanity generally this is true. But it
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Speaker 1: is only true as a passing experience, a fleeting factor
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Speaker 1: in human evolution. It is not a fixed condition of things.
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Speaker 1: It is not the nature of an eternal truth. It
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Speaker 1: is easier for men to do wrong than right because
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Speaker 1: of the prevalence of ignorance, because the true nature of
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Speaker 1: things and the essence and meaning of life are not understood.
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Speaker 1: When a child is learning to write, it is extremely
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Speaker 1: easy to hold the pen wrongly and to form his
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Speaker 1: letters incorrectly, but it is painfully difficult to hold the
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Speaker 1: pen and to write properly. This is because of the
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Speaker 1: child's ignorance of the art of writing, which can only
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Speaker 1: be dispelled by persistent effort and practice, until at last
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Speaker 1: it becomes natural and easy to hold the pen correctly,
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Speaker 1: and difficult as well as altogether unnecessary to do the
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Speaker 1: wrong thing. It is the same in the vital things
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Speaker 1: of mind and life. To think and do rightly requires
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Speaker 1: much practice and renewed effort. But the time comes at
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Speaker 1: last when it becomes habitual and easy to think and
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Speaker 1: do rightly, and difficult, as it is then seen to
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Speaker 1: be altogether unnecessary to do that which is wrong. Just
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Speaker 1: as an artisan becomes by practice accomplished in his craft,
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Speaker 1: so you can become by practice accomplished in goodness. It
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Speaker 1: is entirely a matter of forming new habits of thought,
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Speaker 1: and he to whom right thoughts have become easy and natural,
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Speaker 1: and wrong thoughts and acts difficult to do, has attained
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Speaker 1: to the highest virtue, to pure spiritual knowledge. It is
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Speaker 1: easy and natural for men to sin because they have formed,
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Speaker 1: by incessant repetition, harmful and unenlightened habits of thought. It
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Speaker 1: is very difficult for the thief to refrain from stealing
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Speaker 1: when the opportunity occurs, because he has lived so long
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Speaker 1: in covetuous and greedy thoughts. But such difficulty does not
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Speaker 1: exist for the honest man, who has lived so long
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Speaker 1: with upright and honest thoughts. He has thereby become so
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Speaker 1: enlightened as to the wrong, folly, and fruitlessness of theft,
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Speaker 1: that even the remotest idea of stealing does not enter
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Speaker 1: his mind. The sin of theft is a very extreme one,
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Speaker 1: and I have introduced it in order to more clearly
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Speaker 1: illustrate the force and formation of habit. But all sins
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Speaker 1: and virtues are formed in the same way. Anger and
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Speaker 1: impatience are natural and easy to thousands of people because
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Speaker 1: they are constantly repeating anger and impatient thoughts and acts,
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Speaker 1: and with each repetition the habit is more firmly established
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Speaker 1: and more deeply rooted. Calmness and patience can become habitual
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Speaker 1: in the same way by first grasping through effort a
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Speaker 1: calm and patient thought, and then continuously thinking it and
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Speaker 1: living in it, until use becomes second nature, and anger
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Speaker 1: and impatience pass away forever. It is in this manner
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Speaker 1: that every wrong thought may be expelled from the mind,
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Speaker 1: that every untrue act may be destroyed, and that every
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Speaker 1: sin may be overcome doing and knowing. Let a man
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Speaker 1: realize that his life, in its totality, proceeds from his mind.
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Speaker 1: Let him realize that the mind is a combination of habits,
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Speaker 1: which he can, by patient effort, modify to any extent,
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Speaker 1: and over which he can thus gain complete ascendency, mastery,
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Speaker 1: and control. At once he will have obtained possession of
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Speaker 1: the key which shall open the door to his complete emancipation.
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Speaker 1: But freedom from the ills of life, which are the
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Speaker 1: ills of one's mind, is a matter of steady growth
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Speaker 1: from within, and not a sudden acquisition from without. Hourly
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Speaker 1: and daily must the mind be trained to think stainless
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Speaker 1: thoughts and adapt right in dispassionate attitudes. Under those circumstances
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Speaker 1: in which it is prone to fall into wrong and passion.
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Speaker 1: Like the patient's sculptor upon his marble, the aspirant to
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Speaker 1: the right life must gradually work upon the crude material
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Speaker 1: of his mind until he is wrought out of it
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Speaker 1: the ideal of his holiest dreams. In working towards such
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Speaker 1: supreme accomplishment, it is necessary to begin at the lowest
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Speaker 1: and easiest steps, and proceed by natural, aggressive stages to
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Speaker 1: the higher and more difficult. The law of growth, progress, evolution,
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Speaker 1: and unfoldment by gradual and ever ascending stages is absolute
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Speaker 1: in every department of life and in every human accomplishment.
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Speaker 1: Where it is ignored, total failure will result. In acquiring education,
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Speaker 1: in learning a trade, or in pursuing a business, this
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Speaker 1: law is fully recognized and minutely obeyed by all, But
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Speaker 1: in acquiring virtue, in learning truth, and in pursuing the
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Speaker 1: right conduct and knowledge of life, it is unrecognized and
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Speaker 1: disobeyed by nearly all. Hence virtue, truth, and the perfect
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Speaker 1: life remain unpracticed, unacquired, and unknown. It is a common
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Speaker 1: error to suppose that the higher life is a matter
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Speaker 1: of reading and the adoption of theological or menis meta
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Speaker 1: physical hypotheses, and that the spiritual principles can be understood
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Speaker 1: by this method. The higher life is higher living in
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Speaker 1: thought word. Indeed, and the knowledge of those spiritual principles
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Speaker 1: which are imminent in man and in the universe, can
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Speaker 1: only be acquired after long discipline. In the pursuit and
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Speaker 1: practice of virtue. The lesser must be thoroughly grasped and
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Speaker 1: understood before the greater can be known. Practice always proceedes
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Speaker 1: real knowledge. The schoolmaster never attempts to teach his pupils
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Speaker 1: the abstract principles of mathematics. At the start, he knows
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Speaker 1: that such a method of teaching would be in vain
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Speaker 1: and learning impossible. He first places before them a simple sum, and,
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Speaker 1: having explained it, leaves them to do it. When, after
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Speaker 1: repeated failures and ever renewed effort, they have succeeded in
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Speaker 1: doing it correctly, a more difficult task is set before them,
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Speaker 1: and then another and another. It is not until the
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Speaker 1: pupils have, through many years of diligent application, mastered all
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Speaker 1: the lessons in arithmetic that he attempts to unfold to
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Speaker 1: them the underlying mathematical principles. In learning a trade, say
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Speaker 1: that of a mechanic. A boy is not at first
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Speaker 1: taught the principles of mechanics, but a simple tool is
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Speaker 1: put in his hand and he is told how to
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Speaker 1: rightly use it. He is then left to do it
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Speaker 1: by effort and practice. As he succeeds implying his tools correctly,
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Speaker 1: more and more difficult tasks are set before him, until
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Speaker 1: after years of successful practice, he is prepared to study
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Speaker 1: and grasp the principles of mechanics. In a properly governed household,
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Speaker 1: the child is first taught to be obedient and to
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Speaker 1: conduct himself properly under all circumstances. The child is not
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Speaker 1: even told why he must do this, but is commanded
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Speaker 1: to do it. Only after he has far succeeded in
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Speaker 1: doing what is right and proper is he told why
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Speaker 1: he should do it. No father would attempt to teach
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Speaker 1: his child the principles of ethics before extracting from him
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Speaker 1: the practice of family duty and social virtue. Thus, practice
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Speaker 1: ever precedes knowledge, even in the ordinary things of the
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Speaker 1: world and in spiritual things. In the living of the
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Speaker 1: higher life, this law is rigid in its demands. Virtue
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Speaker 1: can only be known by doing, and the knowledge of
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Speaker 1: truth can only be arrived at by perfecting oneself in
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Speaker 1: the practice of virtue. To be complete in the practice
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Speaker 1: and acquisition of virtue is to be complete in the
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Speaker 1: knowledge of truth. Truth can only be arrived at by
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Speaker 1: daily and hourly doing the lessons of virtue, beginning with
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Speaker 1: the simplest and passing on to the more difficult. A
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Speaker 1: child patiently and obediently learns his lessons at school by
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Speaker 1: constantly practicing and ever exerting himself, until all failures and
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Speaker 1: difficulties are surmounted. Likewise does the child of truth, undaunted
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Speaker 1: by failure and made stronger by difficulties, apply himself to
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Speaker 1: right doing and thought and action. As he succeeds in
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Speaker 1: acquiring virtue, his mind unfolds itself in the knowledge of truth,
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Speaker 1: and it is a knowledge in which he can securely
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Speaker 1: rest first steps in the higher life, Seeing that the
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Speaker 1: path of virtue is the path of knowledge, and that
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Speaker 1: before the all embracing principles of truth can be comprehended,
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Speaker 1: perfection in the more lowly steps must be acquired. How then,
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Speaker 1: shall a disciple of truth begin, Show one who aspires
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Speaker 1: to the writing of his mind and the purification of
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Speaker 1: his heart that heart, which is the fountain and repository
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Speaker 1: of all the issues of life. Learn the lessons of virtue.
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Speaker 1: How does he thus build himself up in the strength
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Speaker 1: of knowledge, destroying ignorance and the ills of life? What
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Speaker 1: are the lessons the first steps? How are they learned?
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Speaker 1: How are they practiced? How are they mastered and understood?
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Speaker 1: The first lessons consist in overcoming those wrong mental conditions
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Speaker 1: which are most easily eradicated, and which are the common
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Speaker 1: barriers to spiritual progress, as well as in practicing the
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Speaker 1: simple domestic and social virtues. The reader will be better
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Speaker 1: aided if I group and classify the first ten steps
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Speaker 1: in three lessons as follows. Vices of the body to
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Speaker 1: be overcome and eradicated. First lesson discipline of the body.
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Speaker 1: First step idleness, laziness or indolence. Second step self indulgence
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Speaker 1: or gluttony. Second lesson discipline of speech. Third step slander.
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Speaker 1: Fourth step gossip and idle conversation. Fifth step abusive and
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Speaker 1: unkind speech. Sixth step frivolity or irreverent speech. Seventh step critical,
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Speaker 1: captious or fault finding speech. Third lesson discipline of tendencies.
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Speaker 1: Eighth step unselfish performance of duty, ninth step unswerving rectitude
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Speaker 1: or moral integrity. Tenth step unlimited forgiveness. Two vices of
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Speaker 1: the body and the five of the tongue are so
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Speaker 1: called because they are manifested in the body and tongue. Also,
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Speaker 1: by so definitely classifying them, the mind of the reader
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Speaker 1: will be better helped. But it must be clearly understood
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Speaker 1: that these vices arise primarily in the mind and are
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Speaker 1: wrong conditions of the heart worked out in the body
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Speaker 1: and the tongue. The existence of such chaotic conditions is
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Speaker 1: an indication that the mind is altogether unenlightened as to
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Speaker 1: the real meaning and purpose of life, and their eradication
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Speaker 1: is the beginning of a virtuous, steadfast, and enlightened life.
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Speaker 1: But how shall these vices be overcome and eradicated? By
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Speaker 1: first and at once checking and controlling their outward manifestations,
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Speaker 1: and by suppressing the wrong act. This will stimulate the
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Speaker 1: mind to watchfulness and reflection, until by repeated practice it
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Speaker 1: will come to perceive and understand the dark, wrong and
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Speaker 1: erroneous conditions of mind out of which such acts spring.
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Speaker 1: It will then abandon them entirely. It will be seen
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Speaker 1: that the first step in The discipline of the mind
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Speaker 1: is the overcoming of indolence or laziness. This is the
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Speaker 1: easiest step, and until it is perfectly accomplished, the other
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Speaker 1: steps cannot be taken. The clinging to indolence constitutes a
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Speaker 1: complete barrier to the path of truth. Indolence consists in
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Speaker 1: giving the body more ease and sleep than it requires,
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Speaker 1: in procrastinating, and in shirking and neglecting those things which
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Speaker 1: should receive immediate attention. This condition of laziness must be
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Speaker 1: overcome by rousing up the body at an early hour,
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Speaker 1: giving it just the amount of sleep it requires for
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Speaker 1: complete recuperation, and by doing promptly and vigorously every task,
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Speaker 1: every duty, no matter matter how small, as it comes along.
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Speaker 1: On no account should food or drink be taken in bed,
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Speaker 1: and to lie in bed after one has awakened. Indulging
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Speaker 1: in ease and reverie is a habit fatal to promptness
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Speaker 1: and resolution of character and of purity of mind. Nor
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Speaker 1: should one attempt to do his thinking at such a time. Strong,
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Speaker 1: pure and true thinking is impossible under such circumstances. A
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Speaker 1: man should go to bed to sleep, not to think.
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Speaker 1: He should get up to think and work not to sleep.
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Speaker 1: The next step is the overcoming of self indulgence or gluttony.
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Speaker 1: The gluttoness he who eats for animal gratification only without
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Speaker 1: considering the true end and object of eating. He eats
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Speaker 1: more than his body requires, and is greedy after sweet
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Speaker 1: things and rich dishes. Such undisciplined desire can only be
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Speaker 1: overcome by reduce using the quantity of food eaten and
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Speaker 1: the number of meals per day, and by resorting to
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Speaker 1: a simple and uninvolved diet. Regular hours should be set
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Speaker 1: apart for meals, and eating at other times should be
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Speaker 1: rigidly avoided. Supper should be abolished, as they are altogether
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Speaker 1: unnecessary and promote heavy sleep and cloudiness of mind. The
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Speaker 1: pursuit of such a method of discipline will rapidly bring
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Speaker 1: the once ungoverned appetite under control, and as the sensual
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Speaker 1: sin of self indulgence is taken out of the mind,
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Speaker 1: the right selection of foods will be instinctively and infallibly
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Speaker 1: adapted to the purified mental condition. It should be well
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Speaker 1: borne in the mind that a change of heart is
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Speaker 1: the needful thing, and that any change of diet which
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Speaker 1: does not promote this end is futile. When one eats
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Speaker 1: for enjoyment, he is gluttonous. The heart must be purified
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Speaker 1: of sensual crave and glustatory lust. When the body is
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Speaker 1: well controlled and firmly guided, When that which is to
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Speaker 1: be done is done vigorously, when no task or duty
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Speaker 1: is delayed, when early rising has become a delight, When frugality, simplicity, temperance,
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Speaker 1: and abstinence are firmly established. When one is contented with
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Speaker 1: the food which is put before him, no matter how
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Speaker 1: in truth learned thus is established in the heart, the
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Speaker 1: the habit of slanderous speech. Slander consists of inventing or
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Speaker 1: the insincere thought which gave rise to it. He will
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Speaker 1: of another that which he dare not say to his face. Thus,
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Speaker 1: The man who abuses and accuses others has himself wandered
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Speaker 1: When the respect towards others and the giving of reverence
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Speaker 1: Irreverence is degrading even in the young. But when it
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Speaker 1: accompanies gray hairs and appears in the demeanor of the preacher,
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Speaker 1: this is indeed a piteous spectacle. And when this can
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Speaker 1: the blind? Then have ells preachers and people lost their way.
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Speaker 1: The virtuous will be of earnest and reverent speech. He
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Speaker 1: or fault finding speech. This vice of the tongue consists
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Speaker 1: He will conserve his energies, maintain his composure of mind,
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Speaker 1: and unworthy thoughts no longer rush to the tongue demanding utterance.
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Speaker 1: When the speech has become harmless, pure genie, gracious and purposeful,
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Speaker 1: And now some will ask, but why all this discipline
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Speaker 1: Can a man make a table before he has learned
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Speaker 1: intricate subtleties of language cannot be understood, and wielded before
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Speaker 1: the alphabet and the simplest words are mastered. Neither can
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Speaker 1: looking forward to a time when perfected through obedience and practice,
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Speaker 1: Shall labour then be considered where the very highest excellence
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Speaker 1: is concerned, the excellence of truth. He who says the
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Speaker 1: must have truth without labour, salvation without effort. That man
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Speaker 1: The necessity for this preliminary discipline of the body and
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Speaker 1: The ceasing from evil leads to and is inseparably connected
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Speaker 1: laziness and self indulgence, he is really cultivating and developing
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Speaker 1: the virtues of abstinence, temperance, punctuality, and self denial. He
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Speaker 1: which the more remote subtleties of the mind cannot be regulated,
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Speaker 1: and the higher stages of conduct and enlightenment cannot be reached. Also,
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Speaker 1: as he has to do right, his knowledge deepens and
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Speaker 1: unswerving rectitude, moral integrity, three unlimit forgiveness. Having prepared the
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Speaker 1: Duty is generally regarded as an irksome labor, a compulsory
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Speaker 1: One of the leading rules of conduct. All personal and
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Speaker 1: doing of one's duty, and when this is done, duty
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Speaker 1: The virtuous man concentrates his mind on the perfect doing
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Speaker 1: adding nothing to the actual truth. In thus shaping his
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Speaker 1: When the virtue of rectitude is fully practiced and comprehended,
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Speaker 1: then is the heart made purer and nobler than is.
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Speaker 1: This consists in overcoming the sense of injury which springs
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Speaker 1: and large heartedness towards all spite, retaliation, and revenge are
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Speaker 1: Only by casting them away and ceasing to be moved
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Speaker 1: true way of life. Only by developing a forgiving and
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Speaker 1: charitable spirit can he hope to approach and perceive the
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Speaker 1: strength and beauty of a well ordered life. In the
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Speaker 1: Having thus laid down the first ten steps and three
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Speaker 1: far reaching discipline of the tongue, and greater and more
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Speaker 1: all embracing virtues to acquire and understand before the highest
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Speaker 1: the reader will have become so purified, strengthened, and enlightened
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Speaker 1: above the high altitudes of truth and the narrow, imprecipitous
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Speaker 1: can be pursued by all with greater profit to themselves
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Speaker 1: and to the world. And even those who do not
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Speaker 1: by perfecting themselves in this path. Nor will their material
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Speaker 1: prosperity suffer by this change of heart. Nay, it will
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Speaker 1: be rendered truer, purer, and more. For if there is
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Speaker 1: one who is capable of succeeding and fitted to achieve,
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Speaker 1: it is the man who has abandoned the petty weaknesses
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Speaker 1: its totality springs, seem in order. These hints will prove
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Speaker 1: helpful to those who are ready and willing to penetrate
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Speaker 1: further into the inner realm of heart and mind, where love, peace,
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Speaker 1: sin is ignorance. It is a condition of darkness and undevelopment.
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Speaker 1: The wrong thinker and the wrongdoer is in the same
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Speaker 1: so long as he does his lessons wrongly. Likewise, unhappiness
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Speaker 1: series of lessons. Some are diligent in learning them, and
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Speaker 1: they become pure, wise, and altogether happy. Others are negligent
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Speaker 1: and do not apply themselves. They remain impure, foolish, and unhappy.
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Speaker 1: Every form of unhappiness springs from a wrong condition of mind.
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Speaker 1: Happiness is inherent in right conditions of mind. Happiness is
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Speaker 1: a man lives in wrong conditions of mind, he will
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Speaker 1: live a wrong life and will suffer continually. Suffering is
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Speaker 1: and self delusion. Where there are wrong conditions of mind,
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Speaker 1: and wretchedness. Three of virtuousness, which leads to fear, unrest, unhappiness,
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Speaker 1: loss of judgment, grossness, disease, and neglect. Nine anger which
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Speaker 1: invincible confidence. Three selflessness, which leads to courage, satisfaction, happiness,
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Speaker 1: Eight self control, which leads to peace of mind, true judgment, refinement, health,
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Speaker 1: and thereby understands the exact proportions which make up the
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Speaker 1: and evil. He is supremely happy, doing only which is
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Speaker 1: divinely right. The man who is involved in the wrong
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Speaker 1: good and evil, of himself, of the inward causes which
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Speaker 1: make his life. He is unhappy and believes other people
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Speaker 1: blindly and lives in darkness, seeing no central purpose in existence,
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Speaker 1: and no orderly and lawful sequence in the course of things.
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Speaker 1: He who aspires to the attainment of the higher life
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Speaker 1: in its completion, who would perceive with unveiled vision the
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Speaker 1: persevere unceasingly in the practice of good. If he suffers,
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Speaker 1: or doubts, or is unhappy, let him search within until
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Speaker 1: he finds the cause, and having found it, let him
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Speaker 1: cast it away. Let him so guard and purify his heart,
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Speaker 1: that every day less of evil and more of good
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Speaker 1: shall issue therefrom so he will daily become stronger, nobler,
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Speaker 1: and wiser. So will his blessedness increase, and the light
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Speaker 1: of truth growing ever brighter and brighter within him will
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Speaker 1: dispel all gloom and illuminate his pathway. Exhortation, Disciples of truth,
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Speaker 1: who aspire to the life that is supremely beautiful and
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Speaker 1: serenely joyful, Take now yourselves in hand, Enter the door
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Speaker 1: of discipline and know the better life. Put away self delusion,
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Speaker 1: behold yourself as you are, and see the path of
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Speaker 1: virtue as it is. There is no lazy way to truth.
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Speaker 1: He who would stand upon the mountain's summit must strenuously climb,
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Speaker 1: and must rest only to gather strength. But if the
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Speaker 1: climbing is less glorious than the cloudless sund it is
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Speaker 1: still glorious. Discipline in itself is beautiful, and the end
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Speaker 1: result of discipline is sweet. Rise early and meditate. Begin
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Speaker 1: each day with a conquered body and a mind fortified
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Speaker 1: against error and weakness. Temptation will never be overcome by
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Speaker 1: unprepared fighting. The mind must be armed and arrayed in
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Speaker 1: the silent hour. It must be trained to perceive, to know,
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Speaker 1: to understand sin and temptation, disappear when right understanding is developed.
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Speaker 1: Right understanding is reached through unabated discipline. Truth cannot be reached,
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Speaker 1: but through discipline. Patience will increase by effort and practice,
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Speaker 1: and patience will make discipline beautiful. Discipline is irksome to
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Speaker 1: the impatient man and the lover of self, so he
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Speaker 1: avoids it and continues to live loosely and confusedly. Discipline
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Speaker 1: is not irksome to the lover of truth, and he
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Speaker 1: will find the infinite patience which can wait, work and overcome.
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Speaker 1: Just as the joy of the gardener who sees his
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Speaker 1: or her flowers develop day by day, so is the
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Speaker 1: joy of the man of discipline, who sees the divine
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Speaker 1: flowers of purity, wisdom, compassion, and love grow within his heart.
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Speaker 1: The loose liver cannot escape sorrow and pain. The undisciplined
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Speaker 1: mind falls weak and helpless before the fierce onslaught of passion.
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Speaker 1: Array your mind, then, lover of truth, Be watchful, thoughtful,
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Speaker 1: and resolute. Your salvation is at hand. Your readiness and
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Speaker 1: effort are all that are needed. If you fail ten times,
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Speaker 1: do not be disheartened. If you should fail a hundred times,
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Speaker 1: rise up and per sue your way. If you should
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Speaker 1: fail a thousand times, do not despair. When the path
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Speaker 1: is entered, success is sure if the path is not
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Speaker 1: utterly abandoned. First strife and then victory, First labor and
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Speaker 1: then rest, First weakness and then strength. In the beginning
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Speaker 1: the lower life, and the glare and confusion of battle,
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Speaker 1: and at the end the life beautiful, the silence and
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Speaker 1: the peace, all common things each day's events, that with
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Speaker 1: the hour begin an end. Our pleasures and our discontents
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Speaker 1: are rounds by which we may ascend. We have not wings,
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Speaker 1: we cannot soar, but we have feet to scale and climb, longfellow,