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In a particular case it is sometimes advisable to discontinue practising meditation for a while in order to apply more attention to spiritual needs and requirements. The student should realize that it is of the utmost importance to steadily increase his power of self-control over emotions, moods, and troublesome thoughts and to develop a more balanced emotional state. Meditation, by itself, cannot bring about this state. What is needed here is dogged and persistent application of the higher will.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 1 : Preparatory > # 501