through weakness of heart obsession creeps in

II, iii, 3.  Not visions but consciousness is important--not what is compelled by training but what results from voluntary revelation is valuable.     -Leaves of Morya's Garden 1925

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26.  Truly each Teacher…suffers over the stunted stupidity of so many people.  Even after divesting themselves of their leaden burden of stupidity they must still pass through the venomous slime of doubt and then the terrible state of self-conceit….At least snails do not engage in senseless wars.

128.  If the best building-blocks for construction can be found and if the will can join them, then one can be certain that one's plan is valid and will be accepted.  The cause of unfitness or frailty of any structure lies within ourselves.  The horror of destruction is caused by discord between consciousness and reason.  The narrowness of human logic and reason can undermine foundations…The major forces of humanity are made possible by man's foresight.  Whence comes courage? Whence striving?  Whence the ability to overcome?  From foresight.

158.  People believe they can attain perfection by many methods.  This multiplicity of mirages lulls the mediocre mind.  But one really has only two ways to live:  either wisely and ardently to seek the realization of aum or to lie in a coffin like a log--self-centered and impoverished in spirit, assuming that one's destiny will be taken care of by something or someone else. 

201.  Does not the value of the strings of the vina lie in their ability to resonate to the finest intervals of tone?  Equally resonant is the sensitive apparatus of the yogi.  Indeed to him alone are known the indescribable fleeting pains which like the tuning of the strings of the vina transform his being.  

261.  Logic has poisoned many a statement.  Decisions are too often reached by an exchange of words rather than from their meaning.  The Teaching can open one's eyes only when it is accepted in the fullness of its meaning.  One may pass through the Teaching as over the tiles of an ornamented floor.  Its design is unseen in the darkness; light is needed to discern it.  In the darkness the design seems unimportant, fit only for a lighthearted dance.  The most sacred symbols can be trampled by the feet of ignorance.      -M:  Agni Yoga 1929

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77.  There are many who become obsessed during the transition of mankind to spiritual creativeness, as if someone had duplicated the keys to loose locks.  It is especially necessary to study people cautiously.  Moreover it is necessary to remember that the obsessed have a peculiar logic, full of contradictions.  If one wants to help them, one can by the force of suggestion drive out the one who is in possession....The worst thing is partially to vex the obsessed person by demanding from him the sane logic of which he is incapable.  It is bad to begin to pity aloud the one who is obsessed or to condemn his contradictions.  The strong and striking command or isolation can ease the fate of a weak heart because through weakness of heart obsession creeps in.      -M:  Heart 1932