Accept The Long Night Patiently, Quietly, Humbly,

The Ego Will Always Be Able To Find Ways To Keep The Aspirant Busy In Self-improvement, Thus Binding Him Or Her To The Fact That The Self Is Still There Behind All The Improvements. For Why Should The Ego Kill Itself?

He Is Beginning To Master Wisdom When He Tries To Learn How Not To Try.

While The Mind Remains So Fixed In Its Own Personal Affairs, Be They Little Or Large, It Has No Chance To Open Up Its Higher Levels. When Attention And Emotion Are Kept So Confined, The Chance They Offer Of This Higher Use Is Missed. The Peace, Truth, And Goodness Which Could Be Had Are Untouched.

Whoever Lives In The Spirit Lives In Perennial Peace. It Is A Happy Peace, A Smiling Peace, But One Is Not Lost In It. One Is Aware Also Of The Suffering Which Exists Around Him Or Her And The World At Large.

God Needs No Worship, No Praise, No Thanksgiving. It Is Man Himself Who Needs The Benefit To Be Derived From These Activities.