How do you begin to see the need for change? The first step is observation. When you see that you are not so beautiful, then you have a chance to make yourself beautiful. When you see you are hurting and harming others, then you have a chance to develop harmlessness. When you see that you are often not righteous but instead you gossip, slander and are full of malice, then you have a chance to develop righteousness in your thoughts, judgements, and actions. When you discover that you are often sad, depressed, irritable, angry, then you have a chance to develop joy. When you see that you are acting under the slavery of your prejudices, traditions, fanaticism, vanity, ego, superstition, and ignorance, then you have a chance to develop freedom.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Transformation – Methods for the Transformation of Life
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