For it is the limitless attitudes of Spirit that knit our Brotherhood together

  ...the meaning of living today and thinking today is the key to progress.  The Now that is the day of salvation recognizes the potential of each day for accomplishment and sees each day as though it were eternity....The criteria for action today among the majority of the people are unfortunately their feelings.  If they feel like doing something they do it, without taking into account the responsibility they have for every deed they do as well as for the deeds they do not.  They take pleasure in contemplating no period of accounting, no return of the energies they send out for good and for ill or of those they thoughtlessly waste....
  The time is overripe now--if world calamity is to be avoided--for humanity to understand that their pleasures of eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, of seeking the love and friendship of the world must be placed in their proper perspective.
  Then as staunchness of being and love of higher principle rises out of the morass of human personality we shall observe the building of men and women who stand for something above the level of mass ignorance.  You cannot just follow the crowd and allow the weed-seeding of the world's thought to take root in your consciousness....For it is the limitless attitudes of Spirit that knit our Brotherhood together         -Goddess of Liberty:  Pearls of Wisdom 13:25
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430.  The blind deride the advice of those who see, and the earthly know-it-alls point out the impossibility of change in the existing order, saying that all is stable and unchangeable, and that those who are more sensitive are nothing but liars.  If one points out to them that no good can come from torpor, they become one's enemies.  But it is necessary to know such enemies.       -M:  Agni Yoga 1929   

Striving, nothing else, results in mastery over the elements, for the basic quality of the elements is striving.  In this state you coordinate the elements with the higher creativeness of the spirit and become the keepers of the lightning. Man shall become keeper of the lightning.  Believe it, by striving only will you conquer.      -M:  Community 1926 

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  Frequently failure to persevere in the correct course has nullified all fruitage just before the harvest from the invisible world was ready to release  itselfinto the hands and use of the seeker....
  But the brand of (rebellious and chaotic) "idealism" has always been based on intellectual pride; it is put forth as the counterplan of the carnal mind that competes with the divine Mind, considering itself superior thereto.      -Saint Germain:  Pearls of Wisdom 13:10
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  But seldom in history have the masses responded wholeheartedly to the ministrations of those great souls whom God has sent forth, whom the Brotherhood has sponsored and who have carried vital messages to humanity....  God gave man the gift of freedom within his heart.  He must nourish it and make it live in this age so that the lessons of the Prince of Peace, of the Buddha, of Mohammed and of all of the enlightened teachers of the world--known or unknown--not in a sense of competition but in a sense of completion order the world and the life of the individual.       -Saint Germain:  Pearls of Wisdom 13:22