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"Anything to which you attach your interests becomes a part of your personality..., an extension of yourself. By adjusting to... group life, you build up your larger concepts of right and wrong, of purpose in life and the meaning that life holds for you. Through social living and identification, your create habitual responses in group life. Let us agree to call these general habitual responses your attitudes... (D. Fink - Psych) (63:8) "Your attitudes, then, are not only an organization of habits acquired in previous adjustments. They are springs of action. They decide what you pay attention to or even notice... Your attitudes are you." (D. Fink - Psych) (63:9) Patient cited "recovered from the nervous condition only after he had experienced something like a religious conversion, during which he created a new set of values... (D. Fink - Psych) (63:10) "A normal man or woman" (true Baha'i ? ) "feels at home in this jumbled and confused and disorderly world. He is like an architect who, amidst the piles of lumber, the groaning of the cement mixer, the pounding of hammers, the confusion of each trade intent on its job, still has before him the blueprint and has in his mind a picture" of what he is trying to build. (D. Fink - Psych)
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