Now, the state of consciousness to which you most constantly return is the place you really dwell . . that habitual state from which you view the world.

I want to make that state my perpetual home, so I automatically dwell in that state

For dwelling in the state long enough clothes the state in flesh.

So the state to which I most often return constitutes my truest self. But no matter how often I’ve been in the state of stealing I could get out of it, get out of it permanently, and never fall into it again.

that state grows stable, so that it expels from my consciousness all of its rivals, then that central habitual state defines my character

It is the house in which he abides, and as long as he remains in that house similar problems will confront him

whenever one state grows so stable as to become our constant mood, our habitual attitude, then that habitual state defines our character and is a true transformation