Confucius said: “The perfecting of one’s self is the fundamental base of all progress, and of all moral development.” A maxim as profound and compensable as it is simple, practical, and uninvolved, for there is no surer way to knowledge, nor better way to help the world than by perfecting one’s self. Nor is there any nobler work or higher science than that of self-perfection. He who studies how to become faultless, who strives to be pure-hearted, who aims at the possession of a calm, wise, and seeing mind, engages in the most sublime task that man can undertake, and the results of which are perceptible in a well ordered, blessed and beautiful life.

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The Heart and The Life The Nature and Power of Mind The Inner Molds the Outer Transform Your Life Formation of Habit Harder to Do Right Than Wrong Thinking Right Requires Practice Sin and Righteousness Are Formed From Habit Doing and Knowing Step-by-Step Progression Practice Always Precedes Real Knowledge Truth Attained by Experience First Steps in The Higher Life Vices of the Body and Tongue to be Eradicated Overcoming Laziness Overcoming Gluttony A Change of Heart is a Needful Thing Overcoming Slanderous Speech Overcoming Gossip Overcoming Abusive Speech Overcoming Frivolous Talk Overcoming Criticism The Higher Life Requires Discipline The Higher Life Requires Discipline Three Great Fundamental Virtues Unselfish Duty The Practice of Unswerving Rectitude and Moral Integrity Unlimited Forgiveness The First Steps Are the Easiest Mental Conditions and Their Effects Suffering Is Rooted In Error Wrong Mental Conditions and Their Effects Right Mental Conditions and Their Effects Striving for Right Mental Conditions Exhortation Truth Is Reached by Discipline First Weakness, and Then Strength