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Will, Wisdom and Love are the three aspects of the Logos; and you, who wish to enroll yourselves to serve Him, must show forth these aspects in the world.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
Of all the Qualifications, Love is the most important, for if it is strong enough in a man, it forces him to acquire all the rest, and all the rest without it would never be sufficient.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
He who is on the Path exists not for himself, but for others; he has forgotten himself, in order that he may serve them.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
You are filling your neighbourhood with evil thought instead of with good thought, and so you are adding to the sorrow of the world.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
The karma of cruelty is the most terrible of all. The fate of the cruel must fall also upon all who go out intentionally to kill God's creatures, and call it "sport".
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
Superstition is another mighty evil, and has caused much terrible cruelty. The man who is a slave to it despises others who are wiser, tries to force them to do as he does.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
See what gossip does. It begins with evil thought, and that in itself is a crime. For in everyone and in everything there is good; in everyone and in everything there is evil.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
Because He is Love, you, if you would become one with Him, must be filled with perfect unselfishness and love also.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
Hold back your mind from pride, for pride comes only from ignorance. The man who does not know thinks that he is great, that he has done this or that great thing; the wise man knows that only God is great, that all good work is done by God alone.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
If a hint is not taken, if a word is missed, it is lost forever; for He does not speak twice.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
It is not so much desire as will, resolve, determination.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
The first of these Qualifications is Discrimination; and this is usually taken as the discrimination between the real and the unreal which leads men to enter the Path.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
These are not my words; they are the words of the Master who taught me. Without Him I could have done nothing, but through His help I have set my feet upon the Path.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
Many crimes have men committed in the name of the God of Love, moved by this nightmare of superstition; be very careful therefore that no slightest trace of it remains in you.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs — these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge — the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
Think of the awful slaughter produced by the superstition that animals should be sacrificed, and by the still more cruel superstition that man needs flesh for food.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
He who would walk upon the Path must learn to think for himself, for superstition is one of the greatest evils in the world, one of the fetters from which you mast utterly free yourself.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
Three sins there are which work more harm than all else in the world — gossip, cruelty, and superstition — because they are sins against love. Against these three the man who would fill his heart with the love of God must watch ceaselessly.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
And this goes on day after day, and is done not by one man but by thousands. Do you begin to see how base, how terrible a sin this is? You must avoid it altogether.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)
You must bear your karma cheerfully, whatever it may be, taking it as an honor that Suffering comes to you, because it shows that the Lords of Karma think you worth helping. However hard it is, be thankful that it is no worse.
At the Feet of the Master (1911)