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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: perseverance will at length render it easy, then pleasant, and
finally delightful.
"The soul's real world is that which it has built of its
thoughts, mental states, and imaginations. If we WILL, we can
turn our backs upon the lower and sensuous plane, and lift
ourselves into the realm of the spiritual and Real, and there
gain a residence. The assumption of states of expectancy and
receptivity will attract spiritual sunshine, and it will flow in
as naturally as air inclines to a vacuum. . . . Whenever the
though; is not occupied with one's daily duty or profession, it
should he sent aloft into the spiritual atmosphere. There are
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