Confucius said: “The perfecting of one’s self is the fundamental base of all progress, and of all moral development.” A maxim as profound and compensable as it is simple, practical, and uninvolved, for there is no surer way to knowledge, nor better way to help the world than by perfecting one’s self. Nor is there any nobler work or higher science than that of self-perfection. He who studies how to become faultless, who strives to be pure-hearted, who aims at the possession of a calm, wise, and seeing mind, engages in the most sublime task that man can undertake, and the results of which are perceptible in a well ordered, blessed and beautiful life.

1. The Heart and The Life
2. The Nature and Power of Mind
3. Formation of Habit
4. Doing and Knowing
5. First Steps in The Higher Life
   Three Lessons for Overcoming Vices of the Body
   Three Great Fundamental Values
6. Mental Conditions and Their Effects
   Wrong Mental Conditions
   Right Mental Conditions
7. Exhortation