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It is unpleasant to break away from long-lived habits, and this is true both in our mental and our physical life. Yet in times of crisis such as severe illness and breakdown, people do do that because they have to. How much better to do it not violently and abruptly--under outward compulsions--but to do it little by little, gently and easily, taking our time by doing it through application of wisdom.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 4 : Purify Passions > # 37