Leading A Spiritual Life

shore, you won’t be successful, of course. You will fall into the river and be drowned. In this world, all of us exist between two dimensions— our selves, on the one hand, and external conditions, on the other. In other words, for any effort to succeed, your role is 50%. The remaining 50% depends on the external conditions. In this regard, then, what you need to do is that before you take any practical step you should consider both aspects. If you only look at what you want or like and ignore the external conditions, your plan is bound to fail. And then you will start complaining about others, even though you yourself, and not somebody else, are the cause of your failure. A Dangerous Attribute If you fail to immediately correct a wrong way of behaving, it is very possible that you wil develop a taste for this behaviour. V ery often it happens that something people try out turns, if they don’t control it, into a habit. If the habit is not stopped, it turns into an addiction. And an addiction very often becomes so deeply engrained that people reach the point of no return, when it becomes practically impossible to cure them of it. This is the case with every bad habit and addiction.