There are three things which we should master during our everyday life, and three ways of achieving them. Consider the power of half-an-hour's concentration as compared with the weakness of giving in all day long! We can control ourselves in all the requirements of the body and of our senses, and the mind must give permission to every demand on their part, without being confused in the matter.

1. There is the beginning of the act,
2. there is the act itself, and
3. there is the result of the act.