Please read and contemplate quotes #665-666 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
Mind is like a tree which is firmly rooted in the vicious field known as body. Worries and anxieties are its blossoms; it is laden with the fruits of old age and disease; it is adorned with the flowers of desires and sense-enjoyments; hopes and longings are its branches; and perversities are its leaves.
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