I started drinking when I was like 15, and by the time I was 19 everybody knew I was an alcoholic. So I would start five fights every weekend and lose terribly. First you start off fighting with one person and then he beats you up; and then one guy would be laughing, so you would hit him, too.
The Soul which is approaching its' liberation, as it looks back over past lives. . . down the vistas of the centuries along which it has slowly been climbing,. . . is able to see there the way in which the bonds were made, the causes which set it in motion. It is able to see how many of those causes have worked themselves out and. . . how many. . . are still working themselves out.