Book Title: Study in Karma Author(s): Annie Besant Publisher: Theosophist Office AdyarPage 99
________________ 88 A STUDY IN KARMA Yet are we not wholly, helpless, for here, either by struggling or by yielding, we can conquer in the end. Such undesirable part of our surroundings as we, can change by strenuous effort, we promptly set to work to change; that which we cannot thus change, we accept, and set ourselves to learn whatever ii has to teach. When we have learnt its lesson, it will drop away from us, like an outworn garment. We have an undesirable family; well, these are the egos we have drawn around us by our past ; we fulfil every obligation cheerfully and patiently, honourably paying our debts; we acquire patience through the annoyances they inflict on us, fortitude through their daily irritations, forgiveness through their wrongs. We use them as a sculptor uses his tools, to chip off our excrescences and to smooth and polish away our roughnesses. When their usefulness to usPage Navigation
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