“To attain to perfect purity one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion.”
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Purity here isn't ritual or rule-following; it's steadiness. A mind that lurches between craving and disgust, adoration and resentment, is never quite its own. Holding an even keel through those pulls is what makes thought, word, and deed genuinely clean.
When to use it
- A referee who feels neither loyalty nor spite calls the game the same way for both teams.
- A caregiver who stops swinging between resentment and guilt shows up steady for a difficult, aging parent.
- An investor who ignores both euphoria and panic sticks to the plan through a wildly volatile market.