“anticipate evil thought”

I’ve noticed that when I got messages from TM, I’ve been thinking of or going through the exact same thing:

When temptation comes, it often comes, as it were, of a sudden, before the mind has time to become award of what is happening. One is apparently hurried on to the point of yielding. All saints understand this. Therefore they anticipate evil thought; defeating its strength and the possibility of its arising by strenuous good thought. By Thought is one made and unmade. Beware, then, that thou dost think good thoughts.

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