A mind caught in habit is insensitive - JKOnline Daily Quotes

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A mind caught in habit is insensitive Posted: Most of you are insensitive physically because you overeat, smoke, indulge in various forms of sensual delights—not that you should not. But the  mind becomes dull that way, and when the mind becomes dull the body becomes further dull. That is the pattern in which we have lived. You see how difficult it is to change your diet. You are used to a particular form of diet and taste, and you must have it all the time; if you do not get it you feel you will be ill, and you get rather frightened. Physical habit breeds insensitivity; obviously any habit like drugs, alcohol, or smoking must make the body insensitive, and that affects the mind—the mind which is the totality of perception, the mind which must see very clearly, unconfusedly, and in which there should be no conflict whatsoever. Conflict is not only a waste of energy; it also makes the mind dull, heavy, stupid. Such a mind caught in habit is insensitive; from this insensitivity, this dullness, it will not accept anything new because there is fear.The Nature of the New Mind, p 262

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