“It is probably something like your muscle,” he concluded. “I mean, if you want a good muscle tone, you know, you work against it, offering it resistance, and it will grow. If you are limp, it won’t grow. You can’t expand the volume of your chest just by sitting. You have to walk up mountains. There’s a measure of going against, as it were, your nature. Your natural longing is to want to sit still. But if you do that and become a sofa cabbage or a couch potato, it’s going to show. So what is true physically is, in a wonderful way, true spiritually as well. Deep down we grow in kindness when
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