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Revision pictured as pruning: man is placed in the garden of God, his mind, to dress it and keep it; having slept, he finds weeds, which show as the conditions of his life, and every man he meets is a branch of his own tree. With the pruning shears of revision he cuts back and reshapes the branch (the unemployed friend pruned into employment) so that only lovely things grow.

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For it is magic, this pruning shears of revision
Revision is forgiveness

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if you do not prune it daily you will get out of the habit, then weeds will grow
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and in the garden you must have pruning shears, and pruning shears is revision
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the garden is your mind, but you need–like every gardener–you need pruning shears
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for in that state I have pruned him from the unemployed state and once more reshaped the branch that grows in the garden of God
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Now turn within and prune it by using these pruning shears of revision.
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you can prune him and then as you prune him you are doing the work which you were sent to do for man
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For it is magic, this pruning shears of revision.
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And so don’t discard, raise them up, prune the tree, and become the real gardener in the garden of God.
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I ask you and I beg you to read and read over and over again the chapter “The Pruning Shears of Revision”
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Yes, definitely. Revision is forgiveness. I tried to freshen it as it were, because the word today…after 2,000 years the ship has grown barnacles.
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