Book Title: Lotus Bloom
Author(s): Chitrabhanu
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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________________ Worldly-Wise Ye worldly-wise, capable as you are of converting the benign fount of love immaculate into an infectious swamp of rancour with one accursed drop of suspicion, come not near me! Speak not unto me, nor confront me any further! For in order to become worldly-wise, I do not propose to learn of you the art of inverting this tender heart, so delicate like a blossom, into an image impenetrable like adamant. Self-Improvement Such is the mass-mentality of the people that it would go on enumerating the shortcomings of others, but would hardly care to consider a single blemish of its own. We should, however, train our minds in such a way as to be attuned to a mode of thinking like this: 'He who has ventured to point out my blemishes is, indeed, my benefactor. How else should I have improved, had he not spotlighted my drawbacks?' We may not be able to improve the popular mind, but we can surely improve our own!

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