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Practice of Meditation
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- Purification of the heart by repetitive thought on pure things.
- Attainment of divine knowledge by embodying such purity in practical life.
Man is a thought-being, and his life and character are determined by the thoughts in which he habitually dwells. By practice, association, and habit, thoughts tend to repeat themselves with greater and greater ease and frequency, and so “fix” the character in a given direction by producing that automatic action which is called “habit.” By daily dwelling upon pure thoughts, the man of meditation forms the habit of pure and enlightened thinking which leads to pure and enlightened actions and well-performed duties. By the ceaseless repetition of pure thoughts, he at last becomes one with those thoughts, and is a purified
