9775. IF I DO NOT PREVENT

```

If I do not prevent

Discouraging thoughts from attacking me,

That means I am allowing

Someone to threaten me

With a taut and strangling rope.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 98, Agni Press, New York, 1983
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