Some think that without an effort of the will there can be no calm.

36, 85.  Some think that without an effort of the will there can be no calm.  Others see calmness as a true innate characteristic, and still others say that a crooked beginning brings a crooked end, or that calmness depends upon the method of labor.  All of these observations have a part of the truth in them, but the most basic one, the quality of experience, is often forgotten.  An inexperienced seaman is apprehensive when boarding a ship, but after ten voyages he astonishes those around him by his calmness....An experienced seaman pays no attention to the drift of surface foam nor does he fear the middle turbulence, but he forecasts storms according to the deepest currents.  Thus let us not fear the foam of the physical, but let us pay attention to the subtle manifestations.  We should understand the essence according to the fiery signs; the primal energy is the fiery substance.         -M:  Supermundane 1, 1938
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  Errors exist in the crucible of relativity in time and space and can lead your soul astray if you deny them.  Challenge the part of you that is afraid to look at mistakes and keep it at bay through persistent mindfulness.  Affirm the three jewels of the pyramid of your being.  And through mantra and prayer, yoga and meditation invoke the sacred fire to draw forth the divinity of your soul.      -Gautama Buddha:  Quietly Comes the Buddha, "Perfection of Truth", 1998, p. 117, see https://books.google.com/books?id=4jsAy4yohlkC&pg=PA117&dq=clare+prophet+muffled+temple+bell&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNn-q9qsbMAhUGHqYKHQgwCGMQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=clare%20prophet%20muffled%20temple%20bell&f=false
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  Kali is a manifestation of the Divine Mother and embodies the dynamic primal energy that destroys ignorance.  She releases the power of disintegration so that the soul might be liberated.      -ibid., p. 171
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 -Yogananda,

Padma Sambhava and Milarepa, in Prayer & Meditation, 1978