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without spiritual help it is extremely hard to transform the phenomon of hatred in daily life into love and compassion.

if you direct mindfulness to yourself, to your own thoughts and feelings,interest in spiritual growth always remains.

the same unwholesome mental state may have to be conquered more than once. the formula is recognize,no blame, change-even if that has to be done over and over again.

But we musn't forget that the only person whom we can purify, the only one we can do anything about is ourselves