Chapter 51

If you want to develop sustainable movement in your life, you are obligated to apply an arduous determination of the mind. This movement must be perceptually specified without resistive hostility to foreign impressions that might enable you to hope for greater success. You should, however, carefully and inexorably apply yourself solely to the pursuit of truth that cannot easily exchange its proper function from the laws of correct thinking that govern it.

I have learned that if you are too easily seduced into confessing your own ignorance before going through a true exercise of a methodical elucidation, you may sell yourself short and unknowingly enter a mock contest in which no victor is ever crowned with permanent possession. If you combine the elements of all your knowledge without yielding to spontaneity in the production of conceptions, you can enjoy nothing but the purest form of thought.