One has to forget all conditions

208.  Degrade not yourselves with trivial judgments and with a smile accost danger.    

-Leaves of Morya’s Garden 1924

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II, iv, 6.  Pigs also trample upon flowers but without any effect on themselves.  Therefore without conscious consumption of the vital emanation one may pass over the best remedies.

II, iv, 21.  It has been decided to safeguard the future destiny by placing it into vital practical conditions of the cooperation of the Spirit. 

II, vii, 2.  One has to forget all conditions--then the light is lit.

II, vii, 13.  A man who had withheld the confession of a crime sat in prison.  At home he had left riches which had come to him unexpectedly.  The noise of every step outside suggested to him a pardon.  He sent couriers to deliver the riches to the judge.  But a simple confession would have freed him and preserved his wealth.

It is easier for a man to sit in prison than to pronounce the saving confession.

II, vii, 16.  A smile of determination is the best guide. One must acknowledge the goal and devote oneself to the plan of the Teacher.

Every personal desire is harmful, but striving toward achievement is required.  Desire is not an achievement; achievement is the realization of necessity.       -Leaves of Morya’s Garden 1925 

(by Schmiechen, 1884)

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65. Our condition for co-workers is a complete desire to apply in life our fundamentals not in theory but in practice.     -M:  Community 1926

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293.  Not without reason did the ancient sages choose to occupy themselves with some art or handicraft.  Each one had to acquire some manual skill.  They had in mind a means of concentration.  Each one in his striving for perfectionment thus intensified his will and attention.  Even in the few objects which have come down to us there can be seen a high quality of workmanship.  Precisely at present the time has again come to return to quality in manual work.  It is impossible to place spiritual bounds within the confines of machines.  It is necessary to take the time to produce a quality of workmanship that will revivify the imagination.  Precisely quality and imagination are united on the steps of fiery attainment.       -M:  Fiery World 1934