for such essential achievements three elements are necessary

41. We drive out all fear.  We throw to the wind all the many-colored feathers of fear:  blue feathers of frozen terror, green feathers of trembling betrayal, yellow feathers of secret crawling away, red feathers of frenzied heartbeat, whitish feathers of reticence, black feathers of falling into the abyss.  It is needful to repeat about the multiformity of fear, otherwise there remains somewhere a small gray feather of complaisant mumbling or even some fluff of hurried bustle, but behind these will be the same idol of fear.  Each wing of fear bears one downwards.     -M:  Community 1926
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453.   Buddha was human and was depicted as such but with rays from behind the shoulders. Thus to the full scale of human nature was added the symbol of mastery of the elements, and in this lies attainment.  But people cannot accept the idea of attainment in the human state.  When they are told about the rays of the shoulders they begin immediately to demean the importance of other parts of the body.  Thus is created the caricature of a cherub as a lifeless sausage--a complete and senseless isolation from life.  Therefore we adopt a tempering procedure, first with a flow of unexpected events, then by uprooting the sense of personal property, and afterward by assigning a mission of particular danger.  And after these purifications we turn your attention to everyday life on Earth where in the midst of seemingly ordinary conditions, extraordinary challenges occur.      -M: Agni Yoga 1929
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 35.  The most difficult thing for people is to coordinate the utmost rapture of spirit with inexhaustible action.  For success extreme tension of spirit is needed, but in each action a certain reserve must be preserved.  An exhausted action loses its beauty and the magnetism of conviction.  A singer who has exhausted the vocal reserve primarily arouses pity.  The manifestation of extreme tension of spirit must not reflect itself in actions of desperation; for then the manifestation of inner energy will dissolve in an action foreign to the spirit.  One must cognize this law firmly in order not to turn into a windmill.   

582. The Brothers of Mercy could enter into the worst nests of pestilence without being contaminated because they had committed their consciousness to Christ irrevocably and undividedly.  Such communion of consciousness created flashes of fire for unassailable purification.  Such a Western example can call to mind numerous similar undivided actions which awaken the fire of tension of the heart....
  Through the heart one can transport one's consciousness along the chain of Hierarchy, thus multiplying one's strength and becoming invulnerable.  This means that for such essential achievements three elements are necessary--heart, Hierarchy and the realization of non-separateness.  Let us accustom ourselves to constantly feel the heart.  Then let us not forget to retain the Image of the Teacher in the third eye, and let us understand the meaning of indivisibility of aspiration.  The last may often be the most difficult.  People are unwilling to drive away the bats of abomination from around them and thus they split even their incipient aspiration; the result is a shaggy ball of such aspiration without progress.  One should not repeat dismal roulades which contaminate space and impede the link with Hierarchy.      

(by Schmiechen, 1884)

                                                          M:  Heart 1932
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238.  The Fiery Sun is invisible, likewise invisible are great heavenly bodies.  It should be explained in schools how insignificantly small is our field of vision.  Only thus is it possible to convince humanity that while it is divine in its heart essence, in the body it is subject to all limitations.  Only thus will children realize what they must be concerned about.  They are very perplexed at that which is manifested in the chest and continually beats.     -Morya:  Fiery World 1934
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33.  we see how important is vibration.  For this reason much was not written down but was transmitted orally.  Mere letters without sound produce no results.  Moreover the very quality of the voice has a special significance.  A deep chest tone can give greater resonance than a high, flat or nasal one.  Thus not only melody itself but quality of voice is important.  I consider that at present the quality of voice is too little valued.  Not volume, nor eloquence but inner magnetism is important--the same is a fundamental requisite in singing.  Many voices have been deprived of their natural qualities by methods of vocal training.    
-M:  Aum 1936