Awakening is not changing who you are but discarding who you are not.
It's easy enough to change your personality, to become evil.
The trouble is, it stays with you. And it damages you.
Spirit is not bothered by habits - habits belong to the personality.
The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.
Every human personality is the product of an innate drive to create something unique from one's raw individual experience.
Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.
Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.
Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
Make yourself in such a way that you are always part of the solution, not the problem.
I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.