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WISHING AND WILLING
which our Master often mentions. These are our choices and they are the building blocks of our memory and consequently that of our samskaras are acquired impressions. If we do not learn this way our life would reflect our conditioned patterns of thought (habits, fixed ideas and accepted beliefs) or other people's instructions, and we are no longer in charge of our own life experience. That this otherwise not very desirable manner of living can also be used for spiritual growth is what we find in many masters’ saying that “think all actions as that of the master” with a warning that this can only be temporary measure.
Choices when made consciously gain the quality of decisiveness. Decisiveness is a great help to practical success as it strengthens and develops clarity of mind. Persons who plan the course of the day by fixing routines develop determination more easily.
When we decide to follow the First Commandment of the Master we are developing a will. By making it something that shall be
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