When Every Situation Which Life Can Offer

It Is A Grave Misconception To Regard The Mystical Progress As Passing Mostly Through Ecstasies And Raptures. On The Contrary, It Passes Just As Much Through Broken Hearts And Bruised Emotions, Through Painful Sacrifices And Melancholy Renunciations.

Our Greatest Illusion Is Disillusion. We Imagine That We Are Disillusioned With Life, When The Truth Is That We Have Not Even Begun To Live.

Every Test Successfully Met Is Rewarded By Some Growth In Intuitive Knowledge, Strengthening Of Character, Or Initiation Into A Higher Consciousness.

Every Discussion Which Is Made From An Egoistic Standpoint Is Corrupted From The Start And Cannot Yield An Absolutely Sure Conclusion. The Ego Puts Its Own Interest First And Twists Every Argument, Word, Even Fact To Suit That Interest.

If You Investigate The Matter Deeply Enough And Widely Enough, You Will Find That Happiness Eludes Nearly All Men Despite The Fact That They Are Forever Seeking It. The Fortunate And Successful Few Are Those Who Have Stopped Seeking With The Ego Alone And Allow The Search To Be Directed Inwardly By The Higher Self. They Alone Can Find A Happiness Unblemished By Defects Or Deficiencies, A Supreme Good Which Is Not A Further Source Of Pain And Sorrow But An Endless Source Of Satisfaction And Peace.