The method of eradication is, by the way, the method that is easier than not, as soon as conviction of the possibility of it is nursed into a belief.
Effective methods are always easy methods.
Repression acknowledges, and therefore strengthens, the evil to be repressed, is never-ending and altogether ineffectual.
Eradication is the simple method of ceasing to import or admit evil counsel or report, and is the only effective method in menticulture.
While the future is the field in which growth must take place, the now or, rather, the immediate-next-future, is the only time for action. Are you possessed of fearthought, or anger, or worry, or suspicion, or jealousy, or envy, or malice, or indifference at this moment? No! You cannot be, for two distinct thoughts cannot occupy the mind at the same time, and your thought is occupied with the subject matter of this hypothesis. The next time you have any of these poisons you will have to import them afresh in response to the invitation of so mean a liar as Suspicion, or at the command of so silly a coward as Fear. Habit-of-thought-of-evil—the devil—will return to you for the usual easy conquest, but newly-acquired knowledge of his impotency to harm can aid Determination to resist him until Habit-of-Thought is no longer Bad-Habit-of-Thought and will, therefore, no longer assist in the materialization of the spook. And then, and only then, will you be free—free to grow, eager to serve, and altogether happy.
All time—all eternity—is made up of a succession of nows. If you are free in the present now, you may more easily be free from temptation in the succeeding nows until emancipation shall be complete and the very atmosphere of your freedom shall exorcise all evil before it can come near enough to attract your consciousness.
You are free this moment; you can be free in the succeeding moments; you can be free forever! It is easier than not!