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To improve and purify the ordinary self, to reach and realize the higher self, are clearly the most difficult of tasks. To govern passions, quieten feelings, control thoughts and develop intuitions, to direct tendencies, to remove complexes, and to remain steadfast in sticking to the chosen path--is not all this a Herculean task?

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 5 : Self-Development > # 121