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If we do not develop within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve to something higher.
Every idea which does not become your ideal slays a force in your soul; every idea which becomes your ideal creates within you life-forces.
Adapt each one of your actions, and frame each one of your words in such a way that you infringe upon no one's free-will.
The student must seek the power of confronting himself, at certain times, as a stranger. He must stand before himself with the inner tranquility of a judge.
It is as though we had spent the whole day in a place where we beheld the smallest objects at the same close range as the largest, and in the evening climbed a neighboring hill and surveyed the whole scene at a glance.
“In my own world of thought and feeling the deepest mysteries lie hidden, only hitherto I have been unable to perceive them.”
If we judge something that happens to us today according to the experience of yesterday, we are exposed to a multitude of errors.
Patience has the effect of attraction, impatience the effect of repulsion on the treasures of higher knowledge.
Every word spoken without having been thoroughly purged in thought is a stone thrown in the way of esoteric training.
Only the love of work, and not of success, leads to progress.
The student must, from time to time, glance introspectively into himself, sink back into himself, take counsel with himself, form and test the fundamental principles of his life, run over in his thoughts the sum total of his knowledge, weigh his duties, and reflect upon the content and aim of life.
Even as the sun does not withdraw its light from the bad and the evil, so he, too, does not refuse them an intelligent sympathy.
A hundred failures cannot rob him of this faith. This is the “faith which can move mountains.”
respond. If he sees something it is because he wills to see it, and if he does not voluntarily take notice of something it is actually non-existent for him.
The student learns—indeed he must learn if he is to retain a firm footing in the physical world and not become a visionary—to connect the higher experiences of sleep with his physical environment. At first, however, the world entered during sleep is a completely new revelation.
Man must become a partaker of the spirit in order to carry its revelations into the physical world. He transforms the earth by implanting in it what he has ascertained in the spiritual world.
