Turn this knowledge into spiritual power to help dismiss any discouraging thought: Those parts of us that whisper to us from some unseen corner of our heart, that tell us that our effort to know the Truth of ourselves is useless -- or that our wish for more Light is a waste, these thoughts and feelings are nothing but the dark voices of uselessness and waste themselves. These negative states must try to denigrate our fledgling hope for the Higher Life because if they can't succeed in darkening our heart to make it habitable for them, then they and their forces of despair will have nowhere else to dwell!
