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IN THE OUTER COURT
IN THE OUTER COURT
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"With those who are cultivating the Higher Self there must be at least no compromise with evil, there must be at least no paltering with that which is not right and pure and good. While there may still be failures in the achievement of the right, there must be no contented remaining in the wrong."
"The building of character should not be a thing of fits and starts, a casual building and leaving off, an effort in this direction one day and in another direction to-morrow. It should be a deliberate building which begins with the materials ready to hand, which begins with the character as it is recognized to exist, which looks quietly at all its strength and at all its weaknesses, and sets to work to improve the one and to remedy the other."
"He who is seeking to train his mind will first have to begin with very simple matters; he will find that this mind is always running about from one thing to another, hard to control and difficult to curb, restless and uneasy, turbulent and difficult to restrain; and he will begin at first by training it as you would train a steed that you are breaking in for your riding, to go definitely along the road that you choose, not leaping over hedge and ditch, and racing across country in every direction, but going along the road that is chosen by the rider, along that and along no other."
"He who aims at thought control will decline to take all his knowledge in scraps, as though he had no power of following a sustained argument; he will put aside the endless temptations that surround him in this superficial age and time; he will read by choice and by deliberate motive—for it is here that the thought of the candidate is trained—he will read with deliberate motive sustained arguments long lines of argument which train the mind in going along one definite line for a considerable period, and he will not permit it to leap from one thing to another rapidly, thus intensifying the restlessness which is an obstacle in his path, and which will block him utterly until it is overcome."
"The secret of all peace in this world, or in any other, is the dwelling of the mind in the Eternal."
"Right thinking is the very citadel of the castle; at the same time it is the gateway through which everything enters in. Unless this be guarded all else is left open to the enemy."
"Truth and gentleness are not in opposition, as too often we are inclined to think, and speech loses nothing of its truth by being perfect in its gentleness and perfect also in its courtesy and its compassion. The more true it is the more gentle it needs must be, for at the very heart of all things is truth and also compassion."
"That on which the mind is constantly dwelling will inevitably be that which the man shall become."
"No matter that many things that you have to do are trivial; it is the way of doing them, and not the things that are done, that makes the training which results in discipleship—not the particular kind of work that you have to do in the world, but the way that you do it, the mind that you bring to it, the forces with which you execute it, the training that you gain from it."
"With those who are cultivating the Higher Self there must be at least no compromise with evil, there must be at least no paltering with that which is not right and pure and good. While there may still be failures in the achievement of the right, there must be no contented remaining in the wrong."
"The building of character should not be a thing of fits and starts, a casual building and leaving off, an effort in this direction one day and in another direction to-morrow. It should be a deliberate building which begins with the materials ready to hand, which begins with the character as it is recognized to exist, which looks quietly at all its strength and at all its weaknesses, and sets to work to improve the one and to remedy the other."
"He who is seeking to train his mind will first have to begin with very simple matters; he will find that this mind is always running about from one thing to another, hard to control and difficult to curb, restless and uneasy, turbulent and difficult to restrain; and he will begin at first by training it as you would train a steed that you are breaking in for your riding, to go definitely along the road that you choose, not leaping over hedge and ditch, and racing across country in every direction, but going along the road that is chosen by the rider, along that and along no other."
"He who aims at thought control will decline to take all his knowledge in scraps, as though he had no power of following a sustained argument; he will put aside the endless temptations that surround him in this superficial age and time; he will read by choice and by deliberate motive—for it is here that the thought of the candidate is trained—he will read with deliberate motive sustained arguments long lines of argument which train the mind in going along one definite line for a considerable period, and he will not permit it to leap from one thing to another rapidly, thus intensifying the restlessness which is an obstacle in his path, and which will block him utterly until it is overcome."
"The secret of all peace in this world, or in any other, is the dwelling of the mind in the Eternal."
"Right thinking is the very citadel of the castle; at the same time it is the gateway through which everything enters in. Unless this be guarded all else is left open to the enemy."
"Truth and gentleness are not in opposition, as too often we are inclined to think, and speech loses nothing of its truth by being perfect in its gentleness and perfect also in its courtesy and its compassion. The more true it is the more gentle it needs must be, for at the very heart of all things is truth and also compassion."
"That on which the mind is constantly dwelling will inevitably be that which the man shall become."
"No matter that many things that you have to do are trivial; it is the way of doing them, and not the things that are done, that makes the training which results in discipleship—not the particular kind of work that you have to do in the world, but the way that you do it, the mind that you bring to it, the forces with which you execute it, the training that you gain from it."
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