The Primary Consequences of Your Conduct

The primary consequence is that you will be changed by your conduct. It's not always obvious that we are reshaping our being in this way. Sometimes it can take actually quite a long time for the fruits of our conduct to show themselves, either skillful or unschoolful. I don't know whether any of you have read Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. But it's a very, very good novel and well worth reading.