True gems

Exuberance is a good stimulus towards action, but the inner light grows in silence and concentration.True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awaking of consciousness which goes through successive stages.Know the world in yourself. Never look for yourself in the world, for this would be to project your illusion.We mustn't confuse mastery with mimicry, knowledge with superstitious ignorance.You will free yourself when you learn to be neutral and follow the instructions of your heart without letting things perturb you.Growth in consciousness doesn't depend on the will of the intellect or its possibilities but on the intensity of the inner urge.If you would know yourself, take yourself as starting point and go back to its source; your beginning will disclose your end.Images are nearer reality than cold definitions.Knowledge is consciousness of reality. Reality is the sum of the laws that govern nature and of the causes from which they flow.By knowing one reaches belief. By doing one gains conviction. When you know, dare.There are two kinds of error: blind credulity and piecemeal criticism. Never believe a word without putting its truth to the test; discernment does not grow in laziness; and this faculty of discernment is indispensable to the Seeker. Sound skepticism is the necessary condition for good discernment; but piecemeal criticism is an error.what you are doing does not matter so much as what you are learning from doing it. ? It is better not to know and to know that one does not know.Have the wisdom to abandon the values of a time that has passed and pick out the constituents of the future. An environment must be suited to the age and men to their environment.