Until one is wholly under the influence of the independent wisdom of the soul, almost all that he is and does is a result of habit, or conditioning. If one is bound by a bad ego, subject to desires and likes and dislikes, conditioned to respond in a materialistic way to his senses; if his thoughts and actions are under the compulsion of delusion, his will bound by karma-— then, because of the way these influences control and condition his mental makeup and manner of behaviour, all of them may be said to be ” bad habits,” the army of the Kurus.
— GTWA, ch.1, pg. 138
