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30. The obstacles to soul cognition are bodily disability, mental inertia, wrong questioning, carelessness, laziness, lack of dispassion, erroneous perception, inability to achieve concentration, failure to hold the meditative attitude when achieved.

— Alice Bailey The Light of the Soul: Its Science and Effect: a paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with commentary (1927)

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I have already given you more than you can understand, but not more than you can begin slowly to study and eventually to comprehend...

Discipleship in the New Age, Volume II (1955)

Arrest each unloving thought; stamp out each critical action, and teach yourself to love all beings - not in theory but in deed and in truth.

Discipleship in the New Age, Vol. I (1944)

The more a man grasps and knows, the greater is the horizon which opens up before him.

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There is no finality in the presentation of truth; it develops and grows to meet man's growing demand for light.

When the spiritual intelligence, which stands alone and freed from objects, reflects itself in the mind stuff, then comes awareness of the self.

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