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The just man is most free from disturbance, while the unjust is full of the utmost disturbance. (17)

 
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I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the world.

 
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The one primary and fundamental law of mental action consists in a tendency to generalisation. Feeling tends to spread ; connections between feelings awaken feelings; neighboring feelings become assimilated; ideas are apt to reproduce themselves. These are so many formulations of the one law of the growth of mind. When a disturbance of feeling takes place, we have a consciousness of gain, the gain of experience; and a new disturbance will be apt to assimilate itself to the one that preceded it. Feelings, by being excited, become more easily excited, especially in the ways in which they have previously been excited. The consciousness of such a habit constitutes a general conception.
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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.

 
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Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.

 
Vernon Howard
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