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Habit acts as though it were the most compelling law, yet it is not law: it blinds us to the greater world and robs us of the man we could be, and a new habit (a daily drowsy hour, a daily contemplation of the invisible state) creates a new approach to life.

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habit renders us totally blind to what otherwise we should see; but habit is not law
the only thing which robs him of the man he could be, is habit
habit is the most inhibiting force in the world
It is not law, but habit acts as though it were the most compelling law in the world. We are creatures of habit
We get into the habit of accepting as final the evidence of our senses
The habit of seeing only that which our senses permit renders us totally blind to what, otherwise, we could see

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But habit is a strange thing in man’s world. It is not law, but habit acts as though it were the most compelling law in the world.
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the only thing which robs him of the man he could be, is habit
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The only reason you and I are functioning as we are today, and are not aware of the greater outlook, is simply because we are creatures of habit
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The habit of seeing only that which our senses permit renders us totally blind to what, otherwise, we could see.
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habit once more suggests emptiness, it suggests barrenness, it suggests four months before I can feast
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You and I are creatures of habit. We get into the habit of accepting as final the evidence of our senses.
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We are creatures of habit; and habit, though not law, acts like the most compelling law in the world.
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I observe it always moves according to habit; that it is a being of habit
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because it always travels according to habit, it will move through habit into the feeling of the wish fulfilled
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Although habit acts like a compelling law which drives one to repeat the patterns, it is not a law, for you and I can change the patterns.
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man finds it very hard to leave the things to which he has grown accustomed. We are all grown stuck in the habitual.
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Now man finds it difficult to detach himself from the habitual
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Well, try to pull that man out of that habitual state
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We seem to be in the grip of an unconscious urge which makes us cling desperately to the world of familiar things
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