This is the true situation: nothing has power to tempt me or move me to wrong action that I have not given power by what I permit to be in me. And the most spiritually dangerous things in me are the little habits of thought, feeling, and action that I regard as “normal” because “everyone is like that” and it is “only human.” Our training and experience must bring us to peace with the fact that if we do not follow our habitual desires, do not do what “normal” people would do, it is no major thing. We won’t die, even though at the beginning our outraged habits will “tell us” we are sure to. The
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