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book. If some of us feel that the call is too high it reflects the unwillingness to follow the commandments 3 and 2 which stress on the clarity required to understand and reach our goal.
Obviously this means our unwillingness to change our habits. When we say ‘I am not able to get up early in the morning’ we are only saying to ourselves ‘what if I get up late and attend to meditation.’ When we say we are not able to forgive our brother or sister we are only saying we are not willing to do so. The Commandments demand that we eschew greed, gluttony, hatred, envy, hopelessly undue attachment to persons and property and a host of other habit patterns which having been created by us we refuse to leave them. The plays of the mind are mysterious and funny and deserve greater attention in its role in habit formation.
Habit is defined as an acquired behaviour pattern followed until it has become almost involuntary. Habits can be good or bad, productive or non-productive. Good habits lead to developing skills, such as learning to listen, pray, help etc., They also save us time and energy by automating the performance of desirable actions. These acquired behaviour patterns free our mind from having to concentrate, as would be required of unfamiliar
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