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| 1. When a person’s heart is moved by goodness, although the goodness has not yet been achieved, nevertheless felicitous spirits are already following him. |
| 2. But when a person’s heart is moved by evil, although the evil has not yet been achieved, nevertheless spirits of misfortune are already following him. |
| 3. A person who formerly did bad things but afterward repents and does no more evil, and continues in good behavior, gradually must obtain good fortune and happiness. |
| 4. This is called “changing disaster into good fortune.” |
| 5. Therefore a joyous man speaks what is good, thinks what is good, and does what is good; |
| 6. each day he does these three things, and in three years Heaven will bequeath to him good fortune. |
| 7. But an unlucky man is he who speaks what is evil, thinks what is evil, and does what is evil; |
| 8. each day he does these three things, and in three years Heaven will strike him with misfortune. |
| 9. Why would we not be diligent in following this? |
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