Attitudes for aspirants: The most practical thing is to be spiritually-minded

The most practical thing to do in the world is to be spiritually-minded. It needs no special time, place or circumstances. It is not […]

Attitudes for aspirants: Correct reinterpretation of the ancient word “religion”

What is wrong with the world today? Such questions are bound to arise in thinking minds, but often the answers given are not completely […]

Attitudes for aspirants: A desperate struggle

All life is an effort to achieve freedom from self-created entanglement. It is a desperate struggle to undo what had been done in ignorance; […]

Attitudes for aspirants: Transition from unintelligent action to intelligent action – Part 2 of 2

Inaction is less helpful than intelligent action, but it is better than unintelligent action, for it amounts to the non-doing of that which would […]

Attitudes for aspirants: Transition from unintelligent action to intelligent action -1 of 2

All action, except that which is intelligently designed to attain God-realization, binds consciousness. It is not only an expression of accumulated ignorance, but also […]

Attitudes for aspirants: Real learning

The man of the world believes that to have understood a thing intellectually is to have learned it. The true lesson in action, though, […]

Attitudes for aspirants: Not to worry about the final goal

Often the aspirant becomes discouraged when he begins to understand how very long and difficult the path is. But these are persons who are […]

Attitudes for aspirants: Intellectual bigotry is the real slavery

Although the unconscious slavery of modern man to the industrial age is a serious matter, the emancipation of mankind from physical and economic slavery […]

Attitudes for aspirants: Rituals and ceremonies become a sidetrack to the path

Often the aspirant is concerned in the early phases of his awakening by his attitude towards established religions and their rituals. All of these […]

Attitudes for aspirants: To use intellect as a tool, not to be overcome by it

One of these points of confusion concerns his attitude towards intellectuality…

Intellect is reserved so to speak by nature for man. To have intellect […]