Self-Devised Efforts
SELF-DEVISED EFFORTS H.P. Blavatsky writes that each student is responsible for their own self-devised efforts of learning and service in the pursuit of Truth. However, all human beings have a germ of the Divine spark within, and, as a ray of the Divine, have access to an inner light of understanding which enables them to […]
Real Devotion
REAL DEVOTION Real devotion is a return to one’s true nature. All human souls in the Third Root Race were natural exemplars of humanity, and were joyously devoted. In the infancy of the human race immortal souls did not know any way other than devotion and harmony, which is why devotion has often been compared […]
Searching for Wisdom
SEARCHING FOR WISDOM Seek this wisdom by doing service, by strong search, by questions, and by humility; the wise who see the truth will communicate it unto thee, and knowing which thou shalt never again fall into error. SHRI KRISHNA,Bhagavad Gita In the same Sub-Category Share on email Email
Knowledge As Spiritual Discernment
KNOWLEDGE AS SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT Abstract space and eternity are indivisible; and therefore to try to fix time and place, as though they were absolute realities, is neither metaphysical nor philosophical. However, an objective standpoint is essential, as has been already pointed out. In the economy of Nature, everything is right in its place, and to […]
Self-Examination
SELF-EXAMINATION Self-examination is the examination of the lower and personal self by the Higher and Impersonal Self. W. Q. JUDGE In the same Sub-Category
Humility
HUMILITY In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart. As soon as you compare that shadow with the shadows of other people, you lose all joy, because you have begun to trade in unrealities and there […]
Work in the Present
WORK IN THE PRESENT Then regret nothing, not even the greatest follies of your life, for they are gone, and you are to work in the present which is both past and future at once. So then, with the absolute knowledge that all your limitations are due to Karma, past or in this life, and […]
Nothing Good is Lost
NOTHING GOOD IS LOST Remember, thou that fightest for man’s liberation, each failure is success, and each sincere attempt wins its reward in time. The holy germs that sprout and grow unseen in the disciple’s soul, their stalks wax strong at each new trial, they bend like reeds but never break, nor can they e’er […]
The Lustre of Wisdom
THE LUSTRE OF WISDOM Learn from these facets of Nature: though trampled on by all, be firm in your adversity like the earth itself; from these mountains which hold their mineral and other resources for the welfare of the world, learn that you must live for others and not for yourself; like the wind, you […]