Study Everything, Join Nothing.

Such Excessive Preoccupation With His Faults Is Not A Truly Spiritual Activity But, On The Contrary, A Highly Egoistic One.the Recognition Of His Own Faults Should Make A Man Humbler, When It Is Beneficial, Not Prouder, Which The Thought That He Ought To Have Been Above These Faults Makes Him.

The Seeker After Stillness Should Be Told That The Stillness Is Always There. Indeed It Is In Every Man. But He Has To Learn, First, To Let It In And, Second, How To Do So. The First Beginning Of This Is To Remember. The Second Is To Recognize The Inward Pull. For The Rest, The Stillness Itself Will Guide And Lead Him To Itself.

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?

Now An Extraordinary And Helpful Fact Is That By Making Mind The Object Of Our Attention, Not Only Does The Serenity Which Is Its Nature Begin To Well Up Of Its Own Accord But Its Steady Unchanging Character Itself Helps Spontaneously To Repel All Disturbing Thoughts.

All Methods And Techniques - And Of Course All Human Beings Who Propound Them - Are Merely Instruments To Help The Student Obtain A Methodless, Technique-free, Teacherless State.