When a person sincerely tries repeatedly to get rid of a bad habit and does not succeed, he becomes despondent and cannot summon up courageous thoughts. Bad habits almost paralyze the will. *The victim helplessly thinks: ” What is the use of trying?”*
Mental slavery to a sense habit is the result of continued repetition of the specific act that gives birth to a particular habit. *By attentively thinking about a certain thing* every day, an individual makes that thing a part of his consciousness.*
When a habit becomes an integral facet of one’s thought, it becomes
” second nature.” This
” second nature” is so powerful it convince one that he can never get rid of his own ” nature,” even if in exchange he were to receive a whole world of superior satisfaction.
— GTWA, chp. 2,
vr. 2, pg. 182
