The meditation exercise contains all the ingredients for
perfect self-control.The values accumulate only when prac-
ticed daily. If you want to break a habit or solve a problem,
at this moment stop trying. I know it is very important to
you, but up to now you have not succeeded your way,
with all that effort. Put the same attention into your med-
itation exercise, and you will find that problems will resolve
themselves. In a very short while habits will give you up,
beginning with the last to appear.
       There will come a time when serious guilt problems
lose their place of importance. This may be quite puzzling,
but remember what I said, “Do not analyze it.” Just be
grateful that it is so. Be patient; in time you will understand
what is happening.
       These words are to be your guide for a little while. Go
through the basic exercise without help whenever you
can. It is essential that sooner or later you learn to do it by
yourself without any help from this recording or text.
       The day you stop meditating will be the day you begin
to fall back, and it may be impossible to begin again, ever.
       Examine the following text and thoroughly familiar-
ize yourself with the simple requirement of the meditation
exercise technique. When you have grasped the basic con-
cept, which is to learn how to become objective to your own
thought stream and not fall into your thoughts, it’s time to put
it into practice.
       You should not encounter any difficulty, but if you run
into emotional blocks toward the printed word, you should
obtain the instruction as it first appeared, as a sound record-
ing in the author’s voice.

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