Changes

Begin with a small thing, a small detail. you insist on it with the same regularity, you see, either not to do it or to do it—you insist on it and compel yourself to do it. You make the same kind of effort, but it is more of an inner effort. After taking these and succeeding with them, you can unite with a greater force and try a more complicated experiment. And gradually, if you do this regularly, you will end up by acquiring an independent and very strong will. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/3-november-1954#p17</ref>

When one wants to change something of the material life, whether the character or the functioning of the organs or habits, one must have an unfaltering perseverance, be ready to begin again a hundred times the same thing with the same intensity with which one did it the first time and as though one had never done it before. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/30-march-1955#p22</ref>