Inner life

Always watch carefully over all your thoughts and feelings

October 3rd 2025

An escalator begins to carry you up or down to the next floor the moment you set foot on it. How does it do this? As you place your foot on the first step, you break through a beam of light, and this simple action triggers devices that cause the huge escalator, weighing many tons, to move.
The same process occurs in our inner life. Each of your thoughts and feelings cuts through a beam of light somewhere, setting machinery in motion within you. And often, instead of carrying you upwards, they lead you down towards hell, don’t they? Indeed, because your thoughts and feelings were such that they triggered the descending motion of your escalator. You mustn’t imagine that your thoughts and feelings are without effect: every inner state propels us either upwards or downwards. So pay attention, be vigilant, and watch carefully over all your thoughts and feelings.*
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