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A remarkable, unusual, and excellent exercise in self-perception is to imagine himself sitting down to the work of meditation, and going through with it to successful fulfilment of his purpose, all obstacles seen, fought, and eventually pushed aside. All this is to be done in his mind, his own person, and its doings becomes the object of concentration. In short, he paints a mental portrait of a meditating man, who is himself.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 5 : Visualizations, Symbols > # 22