as the words of these scrolls are consumed by my mysterious mind i will begin to awake, each morning, with a vitality i have never known before. my vigor will increase, my enthusiasm will rise, my desire to meet the world will overcome every fear i once knew at sunrise, and i will be happier than i ever believed it possible to be in this world of strife and sorrow.
eventually i will find myself reacting to all situations which confront me as i was commanded in the scrolls to react, and soon these actions and reactions will become easy to perform, for any act with practice becomes easy.
thus a new and good habit is born, for when an act becomes easy through constant repetiton it becomes a pleasure to perform and if it is a pleasure to perform it is man's nature to perform it often. when i perform it often it becomes a habit and i become its slave and since it is a good habit this is my will.
today i begin a new life.
and i make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will retard my new life's growth. i will lose not a day from these readings for that day cannot be retrieved nor can i substitute another for it. i must not , i will not, break this habit of daily reading from these scrolls and, in truth, the few moments spent each day on this new habit are but a small price to pay for the happiness and success that will be mine.
as i read and re-read the words in the scrolls to follow, never will i allow the brevity of each scroll nor the simplicity of its words to cause me to treat the scroll's message lightly. thousands of grapes are pressed to fill one jar with wine, and the grapeskin and pulp are tossed to the birds. so it is with these grapes of wisdom from the ages. much has been filtered and tossed to the wind.only the pure truth lies distilled in the words to come. i will drink as instructed and spill not a drop. and the seed of success i will swallow.
today my old skin has become as dust. i will walk tall among men and they will know me not , for today i am a new man, with a new life.