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28. Fakirs may adapt themselves to this world of darkness and unwittingly weaken the ascent of thought. Even a person sitting quietly and contemplating can attain further because thought is the Raja of all that exists. Beauty is born through the lightning of thought.
94. Equality lies in the potentiality of spirit that all possess. Hierarchy is based on the uniqueness of one's accumulated experience. Therefore it is just to say that a complex of knowledge will be the gate of Hierarchy. 156. Experience accumulated in the center of the Chalice gives invincible knowledge. The center of the Chalice is close to the blood reservoir, for blood is the wherewithal for our passage on Earth.
509. It is proper to ask how finer energy can be accumulated. It is primarily through consciousness, self-sacrifice and achievement. -M: Agni Yoga 1929
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226. The foci of life should be gathered. Thus is accumulated that quality which is called culture. Culture cannot be created instantaneously.
400. How many achievements accumulated through centuries are swept away by an unrestrained roaring. One must think of self-perfectment. One must arouse in oneself the superiority of the spirit which will always be sustained by Hierarchy. -M: Hierarchy 1931
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9. But the culture of the heart is not accumulated if it does not receive proportionate nourishment; likewise the best accumulator is inactive without protection and correct connection. The heart demands constant nourishment, otherwise, deprived of the highest link it decays.
21. Where spiritual conversations are often held a special aura is accumulated.
367. Is it difficult in life to refrain from trivial habits? Is it difficult to get rid of petty evils that poison the body? Is not the child ashamed of his first experience at lying? The child hardens his heart only through habit, therefore we call habits the callouses of the soul. Who is not aware of the warning of the heart before each unworthy act? These warnings of the heart provide the best calls, but often people force the heart to silence. This is a great crime--as great as severing the current that brings salvation to a near one.
472. It can be observed how strata of prejudice are accumulated until the entire life is turned into a self-erected prison. But straight-knowledge concerns cosmic truth, hence in itself it does not contain anything disparaging.
541. The accumulated refuse of the past is cut asunder by the sword of the future. The shield of the future is the most reliable and salutary. One must not think of the inaccessibility of the future, for it is being created tirelessly---thus the heart is the pledge of the future. -M: Heart 1932
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112. Does it not seem strange that alongside a period for a diet one must put the ethical concept of benevolence? But fortunately every physician will support us in this because benevolence is the best expedient for digestion.
244. Fieriness is needed for creativeness. Like everything else it is accumulated gradually and it belongs to ineradicable accumulations, therefore it is never tardy in coming.
314. In general one should remember this strategy of splitting up evil. Often it is impossible to avoid the accumulated tension of malice; then there remains only to split up this tension of darkness.
407. Continuous acuteness is attained not by a special technique but by a simple opening of the heart. The arhat never pitied himself, and this trait was not an intellectual one but had become his second nature. Yet because of the deadening influence of daily routine how many priests have lost that which they had accumulated! Daily routine is the great testing stone. It opens the gates of eternity and affirms Fire.
413. Let us assimilate varied manifestations, but let us remember the immediate and find the short path to it. -M: Fiery World 1933
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17. Rhythm is the progenitor of cooperation. …People knew long ago that rhythm kindled collective fires and helped in avoiding irritation and disunity. It affirmed identical aspirations, therefore music is the sign of unity before collective work. It is a pity that modern music is so often lacking in rhythm. Perhaps it serves as the beginning of many spiritual ulcers, but the question of harmony is unusually complicated. Lack of rhythm is disunity, but crude rhythm is stupor. Thus only a fiery consciousness will prompt the refinement of rhythm. …
The abode of agni is opened not by reasoning but by harmony of rhythm--precisely as a vessel sometimes is opened not by force but by rhythm. Only true rhythm carries us forward and preserves us from delay. Yet we all know the detrimental result of delay, as in movement so also in spirit.
61. The leader must provide in himself the example of a constant broadening of thinking in order to approach foresight. Of course foresight results from communion with Hierarchy, but communion itself requires alertness in thinking and a clear striving.
127. We speak here about the highest principle. But just now things of the lowest order are being created in the world, thus one can see madness of whole nations. Right now six wars are going on, but people do not see them.
326. Some centers harmonize quickly, but others for many reasons require far more protracted cooperation. Patience, that great constituent of success, will be tested in such development of the centers. -M: Fiery World 1934
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184. Truth is manifested in Infinity. And though human darkening be prolonged yet from under the dark strata will be exhumed the affirmations of the light. Thus that which is ordained enters in awesome immensity.
318. Efforts at transmutation will attract each karmic action. The condition of the planet creates an inevitable karma, woven by the engenderings of humanity. But on the path to the fiery realm it must be kept in mind that purification of space will bring a great future. -M: Fiery World 1935
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271. Perceptivity is a special quality of the consciousness. It does not depend upon the intellect; it does not depend upon surroundings; it does not depend upon the schooling--it is formed in the domain of the heart. The man who has accumulated this quality cannot be deprived of perception. -M: Aum 1936
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308. It is amazing to observe how good becomes curative. Compassion has its roots in the heart alone.
317. A counterblow of finer energy smites those who contact it with evil intent. The bearer of it does not wish to strike anyone, nevertheless the primary energy sends off discharges when a hostile force opposes it. Thus the counterblow is not sent but is evoked by the hostile force.
489. If leaders do not pass through earthly sufferings, they cannot respond to people's sufferings. If they do not experience the sweat of toil, they cannot guide people in their labor. Self-abnegation, mercy, compassion, courage are forged in life. Nothing abstract can mold the strength of the spirit. -M: Brotherhood 1937
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48. It is not easy to receive the currents of intensified energy while remaining in a physical body amidst daily life. We consider such simultaneity a special achievement. One must be able to adapt oneself to the peculiarities of subtle energies….Many problems must be understood without earthly limitations. People often notice only one detail, then elevate it to an immutable law.
117. So-called present time is simply the interval between visible lightning and audible thunder, when lightning has already struck and thunder is inevitable….Thus the present is confusing to people because it is nothing but a mirage.
140. Sometimes years are required to make the right path, already outlined by us, visible to earthly eyes…. Thus learn from our patience.
141. One must have such confidence in our help that the magnet of faith will attract indestructible energy. Our inner life is one of readiness to render help.
219. The wings of self-renunciation will carry us to the Brotherhood.
(-V. Vasnetsov: Sergius of Radonezh, 1882)
-M: Supermundane 1, 1938
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