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"Do not browbeat your faults. The moment the tension of effort arises, failure is inevitable. Those who try desperately to live up to certain moral virtues are constantly failing. All selfgovernment arises from inner realization which automatically overcomes the resistance of the outer personality and accomplishes reform. In metaphysical disciplines you do not kill out faults; you change the focus of the mind. That upon which we focus our attention is real, and that from which we remove our attention ceases to exist. Do not try to destroy evil; posit good. Do not destroy the body; posit the consciousness. Do not attempt to destroy vices; posit virtues" p 27
"Realization results from discipline. Discipline has long been interpreted as self-control, or as some would say, “the overcoming of the lower nature.” The difficulty is that such words as “conquest” and “overcoming” suggest an entirely inconsistent aggressiveness of technique. The true metaphysician is not a wearied man wrestling with his lower nature; rather he is poised and relaxed, achieving through realization instead of conflict. Avoid the process of suffering your way into a spiritual state. A student who constantly must curb his animal nature by various types of vicarious flagellation will have to learn personal detachment." (1773514628)
"Living is a motion toward perfection through Law. The disciplines of meditation and realization enrich and perfect living by developing the understanding. By understanding we gain reason, and reason in turn bestows the courage and integrity necessary to high accomplishment." (1773514628)
"A wise man living in the physical world does not desire wealth. He desires peace and security, regarding contentment as more than riches. The sincere student, likewise, does not desire the gratification of his ego, but an internal well-being which is more than all the treasures of the earth. He does not desire to be greater than another man. He has come to the realization that greatness is relative and illusionary. The student, therefore, seeks first the Law and its workings, gaining therefrom the treasures of wisdom." (1773514628)
"That which is real can never be destroyed, and that which is unreal can never be preserved. The wise man detaches himself from inconsequential controversies." (1773514628)
"Man has forty-three brain faculties. When one or two of these faculties are developed out of proportion to the rest, a form of vampirism results. The highly developed faculty draws to itself the blood and energy which should be evenly distributed. Thus, as anyone faculty increases, the power of surrounding faculties are proportionately depleted. The one faculty is vampirizing the others." (1773514628)
"While one-pointedness is now called genius, and the narrow-minded have inherited the earth, it still remains philosophically true that narrow-mindedness is a disease, one-pointedness a menace to normalcy, and one exaggerated virtue the worst vice that a person can possess." (1773514628)
"No one is suffering for the sins of another; no one is in a place which he has not earned for himself; no one deserves more than he has; and no one should be happy who is not." (1773514628)
"Yet it cannot be denied that there are “words of power.” Also that certain rituals have a magical effect. But the modern metaphysician is not sufficiently informed to dabble in magic. It is unnecessary to his spiritual development. As the great transcendental magician Eliphas Levi admitted, it can easily become a blind alley. As all mudras and mantras are exceedingly dangerous for the inexperienced, being in the same class as the chakra development exercises and the yoga breathing exercises, such disciplines have been carefully eradicated from the teachings of these pages," (1773514628)
"you must bear in mind that you begin in peace and end in the turmoil of life. You begin by yourself, but in the end you must learn to meditate among all men. You begin in comfort, but gradually you must learn to meditate amidst discomfort. You train yourself in order and rhythm so that you can do that for a few seconds which later you will be able to do at all times and any time." (1773514628)
"So often people say: “My daily meditation gives me the strength to go on in a life that otherwise would be too difficult.” With such a motivation failure is inevitable. Concentration cannot be an incident in the midst of contrary incidents. It must be intimately correlated to the whole pattern of living or it will not succeed, and the time devoted to the effort will be wasted." (1773514628)
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