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Today's reading was edited and adapted from

How to Develop Your Willpower by Claire Tree Major,

published in 1920.

Many years ago, major, published in 1920.

Many years ago I went to see an Indian scholar give a lecture on reincarnation.

He said that the real, indestructible you, the self, is like a person shut up in a tall tower, and that each recurring life is another window led into the tower, giving you more and more light on your own problems, while at the same time opening up to your enlightened gaze, a greater and greater stretch of the landscape

of truth. This same analogy might apply equally well to our inner and hidden lives. Each physical,

emotional, or mental attitude we bring under the control of our self is another window led into the dark

tower of our imprisonment, a window which not only gives you light with which to clearly

and truthfully view the world, but through which also may shine some glimmer of the glory

of the triumphant indwelling self.

The quality of pure matter is inertia.

The quality of pure spirit is energy.

From a combination of the two, worlds are made.

You are a world in yourself. You are in your human life a combination of

these fundamental parts, spirit and matter. You reflect their fundamental characteristics, energy

and inertia. That is the beginning and end of your fight, to bring spirit triumphant from under the yoke of matter.

To do, not to give in.

When you put off something until tomorrow that you should do at once, you are giving the reins of self-government into

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