It is most important for us to do things for ourselves. Especially is this necessary in the case of faith. It is all right for us to adopt a faith at others’ suggestion, but we cannot be real believers if we neglect to seek the Way seriously with our own minds. “If a friend repeatedly urges me to go to hear someone preach, I’ll go out of a sense of obligation, though I do not really want to”—such a feeling cannot develop into real faith.

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