Read about the lives of Lincoln, Washington, Gandhi, Florence Nightingale, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King and then look at your life and the lives of your friends. Between these polarities, your discrimination will grow and help you exercise devotion. Your discrimination is born the moment when you compare the ideal life of a Great One with the life you are living.
Try to devote yourself to a greater beauty so that you see clearly where your life is. On the path of devotion to something great, you slowly overcome your habits, glamors, illusions and ego. A moment comes that you do not have any ego left. But you do not lose your individuality. Devotion releases your true essence which was enslaved in your ego.
Habits go through four stages:
1. Your habits control you.
2. You enjoy your habits and have fun with them.
3. You realize that your habits are limiting you.
4. You abhor your habits.
Devotion helps you reach this last stage and dissolve your habits.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.1
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