If one thinks clearly and powerfully,
one makes a mental formation.
Every mental formation is an entity
independent of its fashioner,
having its own life
and tending to realise itself in the mental world.
If you have made a formation with a definite aim,
its whole life will tend to the realisation of this aim.
What is it that gives strength and persistence to mental formations?
It is emotion and will.
If you know how to add to your mental formation
an emotion, affection, tenderness, love,
and an intensity of will, a dynamism,
it will have a much greater chance of success.
