As the author states: "Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.... I will defend the author by arguing that after one has planted all the correct thought-seeds into themselves only then will they develop a greater self-control and equanimity. Only after a person has taken all of the steps to purify themselves of negative and unwanted thought-seeds can they truly live by this: &q...

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