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What does it mean?
Holding a noble ideal in your heart will eventually lead to its realization.
In plain terms
Keep a high ideal in your heart and you will achieve it.
What can you take from it?
High ideals in the heart eventually become reality.

Where it applies

  • moral growth
  • creative work
  • personal development

Putting it to work

  • define your ideals
  • keep ideals visible
  • act on values

Questions to consider

  • What ideals do you hold?
  • Are you working toward them?

Another view

Some ideals may remain unattainable due to constraints.

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