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Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.
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Most of us continue living unnecessarily near our surface.
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Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.
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Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.
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Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
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The normal opener of deeper and deeper levels of energy is the will.
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We are all to some degree oppressed, unfree. We don't come to our own. It is there, but we don't get at it. The threshold must be made to shift.