What Is, Is More Important Than What

Absorb What Is Useful, Discard What Is Not, Add What Is Uniquely Your Own.

There Is A Powerful Craving In Most Of Us To See Ourselves As Instruments In The Hands Of Others And Thus Free Ourselves From The Responsibility For Acts Which Are Prompted By Our Own Questionable Inclinations And Impulses. Both The Strong And The Weak Grasp At This Alibi. The Latter Hide Their Malevolence Under The Virtue Of Obedience: They Acted Dishonorably Because They Had To Obey Orders. The Strong, Too, Claim Absolution By Proclaiming Themselves The Chosen Instrument Of A Higher Power -- God, History, Fate, Nation, Or Humanity.

The Attitude, 'you Can Win If You Want To Badly Enough,' Means That The Will To Win Is Constant. No Amount Of Punishment, No Amount Of Effort, No Condition Is Too 'tough' To Take In Order To Win. Such An Attitude Can Be Developed Only If Winning Is Closely Tied To The Practitioner's Ideals And Dreams.

We Do Not Become. We Simply Are.

Recognizing That The Power Of Will Is The Supreme Court Over All Other Departments Of My Mind, I Will Exercise Daily When I Need The Urge To Act For Any Purpose; And I Will Form Habits Designed To Bring The Power Of My Will Into Action At Least Once Daily.