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I'd like to begin with a quote that's pretty much anonymous,

although I've seen versions of it from Christian philosophers and Buddhists and Gandhi.

This is it.

The thought becomes the word.

The word manifests as the deed.

The deed develops into the habit.

Habit hardens into character.

Character gives birth to destiny.

So watch your thoughts with care

and let them spring from love,

born out of respect for all

beings.

So this is an expression of karma which really is saying that causes lead to effects.

That when we have certain beliefs and thoughts, they create certain feelings that then turn

into actions and the actions become habits

and those habits end up really creating our sense of identity and if they're really hardened,

become our destiny. And we tend to keep repeating and repeating and repeating or creatures

of habit.

When they create our destiny and when they're based in fear, these habits, they really

become the block in our lives to accessing all that we can be, to accessing happiness

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