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Exhortation, Disciples of truth, lovers
of virtue, seekers of wisdom, You

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also, who are sorrow stricken,
knowing the emptiness of the self life,

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and who aspire to the life that
is supremely beautiful and serenely joyful, Take

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now yourselves in hand, Enter the
door of discipline and know the better life.

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Put away self delusion, behold yourself
as you are, and see the

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path of virtue as it is.
There is no lazy way to truth.

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He who would stand upon the mountain's
summit must strenuously climb, and must rest

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only to gather strength. But if
the climbing is less glorious than the cloudless

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summit, it is still glorious.
Discipline in itself is beautiful, and the

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end result of discipline is sweet.
Rise early in meaday, Begin each day

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with a conquered body and a mind
fortified against error and weakness. Temptation will

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never be overcome by unprepared fighting.
The mind must be armed and arrayed in

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the silent hour. It must be
trained to perceive, to know, to

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understand. Sin and temptation disappear when
right understanding is developed. Right understanding is

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reached through unabated discipline, truth cannot
be reached, but through discipline. Patience

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will increase by effort in practice,
and patience will make discipline beautiful. Discipline

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is irksome to the impatient man and
the lover of self, so he avoids

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it and continues to live loosely and
confusedly. Discipline is not irksome to the

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lover of truth, and he will
find the infinite patience which can wait,

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work and overcome. Just as the
joy of the gardener who sees his or

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her flowers develop day by day,
so is the joy of the man of

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discipline, who sees the divine flowers
of purity, wisdom, compassion, and

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love grow within his heart. The
loose liver cannot escape sorrow and pain.

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The undisciplined mind falls weak and helpless
before the fierce onslaught of passion. Array

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your mind, then, lover of
truth, be watchful, thoughtful, and

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resolute. Your salvation is at hand. Your readiness and effort are all that

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are needed. If you fail ten
times, do not be disheartened. If

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you should fail a hundred times,
rise up and pursue your way. If

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you should fail a thousand times,
do not despair. When the path is

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entered success is sure if the path
is not utterly abandoned. First strife and

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then victory, First labor and then
rest, First weakness and then strength.

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In the beginning the lower life and
the glare and confusion of battle, and

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at the end the life beautiful,
the silence and the peace, all common

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things each day's events, that with
the hour begin an end. Our pleasures

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and our discontents are rounds by which
we may ascend. We have not wings,

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we cannot soar, but we have
feet to scale and climb. Longfellow,