"Realize that your physical experience and environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles on the faces of those who you meet, then take it for granted that your beliefs are beneficial. If you see a world that is good, people like you, take it for granted again, that your beliefs are beneficial. But if you find poor health, a lack of meaningful work, a lack of abundance, a world of sorrow and evil, then assume your beliefs are faulty and begin examining them."
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"You're like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I'll get you is to get you in bed."
"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."
"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."
"There is no greater evil than anarchy."
"Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer."
"Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again."
"If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better."
"Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only."
"Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other."
"I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."
"You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil."
"As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions."
"When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do."
"Offensive acts come back upon the evil doer, like dust that is thrown against the wind."
"There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance."
"In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence."
"Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised."
"The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness."
"If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains."