Faults

You have to know how to go about correcting them

July 16th 2025

It is not enough to want to correct your faults, you have to know how to go about it. If you are forever struggling against bad inclinations that you cannot shake off, you will end up discouraged and unhappy. So, instead of dwelling on your weaknesses and shortcomings which are the result of bad habits acquired in the past, it is far better to focus on what you can do for the future. Tell yourself, ‘Now, I’m going to make amends and rebuild everything,’ and each day, work to this end with absolute conviction and unwavering faith. In other words, take all the elements that God has given you—imagination, thought and feeling—and concentrate on conjuring up within yourself the most beautiful images. Picture yourself bathed in music and light, picture yourself in the sun, with the most perfect form, with qualities, gifts and virtues: kindness, generosity, the ability to support others, to help and enlighten them.
Since everything is recorded, get into the habit of recording all that is best. If you begin this work, it will provide you with an inexhaustible source of inspiration because you will be building the temple of the Divine within you.*
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