When we make the quiet determination to find out what is right, and by that same attitude are also aware of the moment-by-moment chances to forego our former selfish advantage-taking, then we are on our way. 

But if we fail at each fork of the road of new opportunity, we will have excuses welling up inside us instead of Truth—and what should have been effortless graceful motion towards meaning and purpose becomes a clammy self-consciousness that cries for relief and forgetfulness.

Such a soul-need calls the body to conjure up images and invent weird remedies and pleasures so that we can immerse our ego-minds in pleasure and unconsciousness. 

There is nothing wrong with accomplishment, providing we go about it in the right way. Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven and all things will be added without guilt—but most of us get this principle in reverse, and we give up principle for gain and try to make it look and feel right—but we can’t. 

When you turn your back on Principle in favor of personal gain, you pit yourself against the Power that made you, and out of you grows every unclean thing. If you do not love Truth, then automatically you hate Truth.

You then become a multi-layer cake of lies and excuses, acquiring enervating habits that lead to disease; habits designed mostly to ease the pain of fault. Escaping truth, you gladly yield yourself repeatedly to temptation’s offering rather than suffer the humiliation of facing your mistake and going the straight and narrow way. 

As a criminal is afraid when justice comes too close, so is the egocentric on the defensive whenever common sense comes too close. The more wrong turns a willful person takes in meeting life, the more he is haunted by his Conscience and the more fearful he becomes—thanks to the “security” of his habit.

A person could not take the next wrong turning were it not for the mind-dimming power of pleasure. Through his various indulgences he thinks he is right because he feels the security of not knowing that he is wrong. 

If a criminal were to start agreeing with the law, he would have no reason to fear it. Just being on the side of the law would be a comfort in itself.

"As long as you are on the other side of the spiritual law, you will always be wrong, guilty, and you will live like a haunted, hunted man."

So it would be if you gave up your egocentric self-centered existence. As long as you are on the other side of the spiritual law, you will always be wrong, guilty, and you will live like a haunted, hunted man.

All your energies will be spent on defeating the law rather than in something constructive and valuable. Make no mistake about it, even though you might accomplish a great good without God, to prove how right and great you are, you will still feel wrong and frustrated for it.

And like a frustrated child, you may even want to destroy your own accomplishment that stands there mocking you and reminding you of your guilt. 

The failure, sickness, and confusion of the flock is the “glory” of the blind guru of vice. He is “considerate” of their needs and caters lovingly to them. But what a devil he is in disguise! He is the breeding ground for anarchy and corrup­tion.

The drug peddler and the “respectable” physician are equally responsible for the turmoil. Were it not for the comfort they provide, the people might have a chance to find themselves. 

Both the “respectable” and the recognized criminals are frightened of the Truth seeker; only vain, weak and confused people are deceived by the guile of criminals. Only sick people need a physician—it’s when people’s spirits are low that they need their drink or the opiate of their false religions. 

Regardless of their degrees or the letters after their names, men are still men and egotists at heart. The power and glory seekers, the modern-day scribes, Pharisees and businessmen, with a few outflanked exceptions, are corrupting and dehumanizing their fellow citizens for the sake of profit and glory for their egos.

A proud person feels strong, healthy and worthy compared to the pitiful needs of other people. His own unreasonable life is bearable when others are more sick, confused and guilty than him. 

In this way, he is able to veil his own errors and continue enjoying his unquestioned, self-righteous lordship over oth­ers. The common man strives in his own private way to lord it over his fellows, and the professionals lead him on, profiteering as referees and as healers of wounded bodies and devastated psyches.