One is free only when it is the Divine who makes decisions in each of us, otherwise men are the slaves of their desires, their habits, of all conventions, all laws, all rules. And the more they think themselves free, the more bound they are! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/february-7-1970#p75</ref>
==To Get Rid of Habitual Surface Reactions==
There are three occult sources of our action—the superconscient, the subliminal, the subconscient of which we are not aware. We are aware of is the surface being which is only an instrumental arrangement. The source of all is the general Nature,—universal Nature individualising itself in each person; for this general Nature deposits certain habits of movement, personality, character, faculties, dispositions, tendencies in us, and that, whether formed now or before our birth, is what we usually call ourselves. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-subconscient-and-the-inconscient#p6</ref>
But this is not so; one can change. There is another consciousness deeper within man - his true inner being, which is his real self, but is covered over by the superficial nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/anger-and-violence#p28</ref>
==How to Improve Habits: Helpful Practices ==