A better life starts with better thinking

“You should repulse a thought.

If you do not do so, it will develop into a desire.

You should therefore wage war against it.

If you do not do so, it will become a resolution and firm intention.

If you do not repulse this, it will develop into a deed.

If you do not make up for it by doing the opposite thereof

[the opposite of that evil deed], it will become a habit.

It will then be very difficult for you to give it up”

“You should know that the initial stage of every knowledge that is within your choice is your thoughts and notions.

These thoughts and notions lead you into fantasies.

These fantasies lead towards the will and desire to carry out [those fantasies]. These wills and desires demand the act should be committed.

Repeatedly committing these acts cause them to become a habit.

So the goodness of these stages lies in the goodness of thoughts and notions,

and the wickedness of these thoughts lies in the wickedness of thoughts and notions.”