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<center>The time has come for the old habit of ruling through fear to be replaced with the rule of love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/november-5-1970#p1</ref></center>
=Nature of Habits=
…there All life is...organized on the whole weight basis of millennia this old habit of bad habits, which we could call pessimistic, that is,anticipating decay, anticipating catastrophe...thatopposition between what's the most difficult thing to purify, to clarify, to remove from the atmosphere. It's so INGRAINED that itgood and what's absolutely spontaneous. That is the great, greatevil, great obstacle—that sort of sense of inevitable decay. what does good and what does harm… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/0811/junemay-2423-19671970#p37p96</ref>
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The whole automatic habit of millennia must be …even when you are well-intentioned there is something in the being which clings desperately to its habits. People imagine that if something has changed into in their little outer habits, they have made a conscious great progress…All that means nothing at all. It is the inner habits, the inner reactions, the inner way of seeing, the way of thinking, of directing one's action, directly guided by the supreme Consciousnessit is this which refuses to change, which finds it so difficult to change. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0704/january14-22may-19661951#p15p21</ref>
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The time has come for …there is...the old habit whole weight of ruling through fear to be replaced with the rule millennia of lovebad habits, which we could call pessimistic, that is, anticipating decay, anticipating catastrophe.. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/november-5-1970#p1</ref> <center>~</center> All life is organized on that's the most difficult thing to purify, to clarify, to remove from the basis of this old habit of opposition between whatatmosphere. It's good and whatso INGRAINED that it's evilabsolutely spontaneous. That is the great, what does good and what does harm… great, great obstacle—that sort of sense of inevitable decay. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/1108/mayjune-2324-19701967#p96p37</ref>
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In our way of working we must not be the slaves of Nature; all these habits of trying and changing, doing and undoing and redoing again and again, wasting energy, labour, material and money, are Nature's way of action, not the Divine's. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/nature-and-the-forces-of-nature#p20</ref>
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There is no habit that cannot be changed. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/14-october-1963#p3</ref>
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…even when you are well-intentioned there is something in the being which clings desperately to its habits. People imagine that if something has changed in their little outer habits, they have made a great progress…All that means nothing at all. It is the inner habits, the inner reactions, the inner way of seeing, the way of thinking, of directing one's action, it is this which refuses to change, which finds it so difficult to change. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/14-may-1951#p21</ref>
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A weak bondage to the habits…the possession of riches creates. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/3-may-1951#p5</ref>
There are still many bad habits—that will pass. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/april-27-1967#p11</ref>
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…when the psychic consciousness comes down, the old habits climb back into their place. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/9-june-1954#p32</ref>
==Types of Habits==