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feel it. If you spread the love outwards to others, an increase of happiness results. You, seeing this and wishful for the happiness of all, deliberately begin to think love to others, in an ever wider and wider circle, until the love-attitude is your normal attitude towards all you meet. You have created the love-habit, and have generalised an emotion into a virtue, for a virtue is only a good emotion made general and permanent.'
Everything is under law; you cannot obtain mental ability or moral virtue by sitting still and doing nothing. You can obtain both by strenuous and persevering thinking. You can build .your mental and moral nature by thinking, for “man is created by thought ; what he thinks upon, that he becomes; therefore think ” on that which you aspire to be, and inevitably it shall be
See Bhagaran Das' The Scientov the Emotivris.