Study Everything, Join Nothing.

Look How The Smaller Birds Greet The Sun, With So Much Merry Chirruping And So Much Outpouring Of Song! It Is Their Way Of Expressing Worship For The Only Light They Can Know, An Outer One. But Man Can Also Know The Inner Sun, The Light Of The Overself. How Much More Reason Has He To Chirp And Sing Than The Little Birds! Yet How Few Man Feel Gratitude For Such Privilege.

It Is A Grave Misconception To Regard The Mystical Progress As Passing Mostly Through Ecstasies And Raptures. On The Contrary, It Passes Just As Much Through Broken Hearts And Bruised Emotions, Through Painful Sacrifices And Melancholy Renunciations.

Study Everything, Join Nothing.

Let Us Accept The Invitation, Ever-open, From The Stillness, Taste Its Exquisite Sweetness, And Heed Its Silent Instruction.

When It Seems Humanly Impossible To Do More In A Difficult Situation, Surrender Yourself To The Inner Silence And Thereafter Wait For A Sign Of Obvious Guidance Or For A Renewal Of Inner Strength.