It was the loss of this concept of service that turned earthly life into slavery and insanity.

                                         -Venus and crescent

144.  Every farmer knows causes and effects.  But it is not thus in human interrelations; people wish to know neither causes nor effects.  They are not concerned about sprouts, and they want everything to be accomplished in their own arbitrarily prescribed way.  Notwithstanding all the examples, people do doubt the cosmic Law.  They quite readily sow the causes, but they will not reflect that weeds may be the sole harvest….

  The manifestation of cosmic currents and of mental conflicts is far more complicated (than farming).  From childhood on, let youth be accustomed to complicated effects and to dependence upon spatial thoughts.  It should not be supposed that children need to have safeguards erected against their thinking.

-M:  Brotherhood 1937

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214.  Scoffers will say "Can it be that even carpenters, farmers and masons receive help from the plane of finer energy?”  This mockery is out of place, for each devoted labor receives help.  People should think more about the inexhaustible store of energy in the plane of finer energy.

246.  A letter full of lofty thoughts does not belong only to the author or to the one to whom it is addressed but to all of humanity.  We should not be concerned with who will benefit from our thoughts.  In addition to our personal intent the letter is being sent into space, and it is not for us to worry where the thought it contains will find shelter. The only concern we ought to have is that our thought should serve for good.        -M:  Supermundane 1, 1938

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305.  Our life is a voluntary mastership and is not concerned with limits.  Even on Earth it is possible to almost forget time, and service becomes joy.  I affirm that one can prepare oneself for such service under all circumstances.  One need not be a sage to accept life as something important and responsible. There are examples of even simple farmers who were ready to devote themselves to the idea of service . It was the loss of this concept of service that turned earthly life into slavery and insanity.  But the time is approaching when people will be looking, even unwittingly, for the purpose of life.       -M:  Supermundane 2, 1938

              -snow sculpture at Harbin, China