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There is something in the being which clings desperately to its habits. 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>
When a being is born upon earth, he is inevitably born in a certain country environment. In a set of social, cultural, national, sometimes religious circumstances, a set of habits of thinking, of understanding, of feeling, conceiving, all sorts of constructions which are at first mental, then become vital habits and finally material modes of being, which all have a collective conceptions of its own of which we are unaware. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/12-december-1956#p38</ref>
Social habits are something terrible; your - one's consciousness is stuffed with them from the time you are when one were quite small; when as a baby you are one is already told how something should or should not be done—these are ideas which usually parents or teachers have received in the same way when they were very young and to which they are accustomed and submit by habit; these are the most dangerous influences because they are subtle, . <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/20-july-1955#p9</ref>
===Habits of Different Parts of Our Being===